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- You must maintain your PC by treating it the same way as you treat your
car. It needs to be cleaned once a while. (e.g. remove all your unwanted
'*.tmp, *.chk, and ~*.*' files, clean the cache location via your internet
browser, and 'defragment' it, so you will have more spaces).
Only install the stuffs you really need. Please read the
HELP
documents if you need help.
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You may enter Han Yu Pin Yin in the search box; Google will find it.
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How to setup your keyboard for multilingual input methods on windows 2000+ platform
Vista
pinyin (input methord) setup.
A document (update on 10/18/2006)
shows how to setup your keyboard
for a language other than English and some feature dialog boxes
that you may be interested in.
(assuming you are using windows 2000/XP with MS Office 2000 or a
laster version. Last paragraph is for older versions)
- Go to the Control Panel
- Select the Regional Options icon
- Select the Input Locales tab
- Click the Add button for Input Language
- Select Input Locale and Keyboard Layout for the language
- For traditional character input method - select Chinese(Taiwan) - Phonetics
- For traditional character input method - select Chinese(Taiwan) - New Phonetics
Use the property dialog box to set it to Roman Pin Yin
if your don't see Han Yu Pin Yin input method.
It will automatically display a character for you; you may also
use the down arrow key to select a desired character.
- For simplified character input method - select Chinese(PRC) - QuanPin
This setting allows you to switch to different keyboard layouts,
and make your own sentences.
You may also select other input methods if you know them better.
- An EN button should be placed in the system tray. This means that
the default language is English and it will allow you
to switch languages.
You need to add the language if it does not exist in the
selection list of the input locale. You need Windows 2000 CDs
if your \i386 directory does not contain the lang
sub-directory.
The supported languages for Windows 2000 can be found in a help page
of MS Word.
- Go to the Control Panel
- Select the Regional Options icon
- Select the General tab
- Check the language settings for the system and hopefully a desired
language appears in the selection list.
- A list of files will be installed to the system.
- Reboot the system after the desired language is installed.
- Go through the above settings.
The setup in Windows XP uses the Language tab of the Regional &
Language icon on the Control Panel, which is similar to above steps.
Check the 'install Asian language' box on the language tab and then
click the 'Details' button to add the keyboard IME.
Issues to be aware of: For the traditional characters, you might
want to use the Phonetics or the new Phonetics as
your input method because it uses the Big 5 character set.
I use the Pin Yin as my input method which uses the GBK or GB2312
character set. Even the text can be changed
to a font of the traditional characters, but many of the characters
will not be correctly translated. The reason that I select Pin Yin is
the position of the characters matches the English keyboard.
I certainly hope that GBK supports the traditional Chinese characters
better in the near future.
If you use the older version of Windows OS, then you need to go to
Microsoft web site to download the
IME. You need to install IME for entering Chinese characters.
Other Chinese input methods
- Google- this is a good input methods
- A collections of input methods
- How to
select a proper input method. (in Chinese)
Solaris
Follow Sun
Document to install/enable Chinese feature,
then install cxterm
- CJK xterm.
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Free Chinese Fonts
- Tools for learning Mandarin
- Download Chinese
Fonts - you may switch your documents to either the traditional or
simplified characters with these fonts.
- This Zhu Yin Font allows you to select
either Kai or Ming with Zhu yin by the characters.
If you want to select a different sound of the same word,
then you shall highlight the character and select a different font
(e.g. poin1, poin2, or poin3) instead of the base "ChuYin" font.
(examples)
The font works with MS phonetic input method for the traditional
characters that is not interchangable with the simplified characters.
The font provider, Wang Zong Han who is a professor in Taiwan.
- Pinyin Macro
you can download for Word files
- Kai and Song fonts - provided by Taiwan Ministry of Education
(Jiao Yu Bu)
- free fonts
- David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts:
[Traditional fonts]
[Simplified fonts]
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