How to type Chinese character using Pinyin (in Windows)
ncmuck
August 24, 2009, 01:40 PM posted in General Discussion
Typing Chinese is easier than you think using English (Romanized) Pinyin method.
If you have Microsoft Windows, all you need is few settings and no additional software purchase. MS Global Input Method Editors (IMEs) and it will do the trick.
Read my blog http://gkumaran.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-type-chinese-characters-using-ms.html
This blog has screenshots to guide you to perfection.
mbettinson
September 13, 2009, 02:00 AMJust a quick thumbs up for Google's Pinyin IME. Apart from anything else if you log in to your Google account via this (you can see it in the set-up), it will save your history to the google cloud. Very useful across multiple computers.
Also there's no way to change the font size of the Microsoft IME and it's very small. The Google one goes up quite large which is excellent for students obviously.
sanders
November 03, 2010, 06:13 AMThanks. I have never heard about PinYin. But I serfed in the Internet and found out that there are a lot of rars to download at shared files SE http://www.sharedshares.com . Besides, there are examples there.
calicartel
September 12, 2009, 07:58 PMHey Ncmuck, that looks great! I type on the French keyboard (the one that goes AZERTY instead of QUERTY). It seems that this time MS takes the input language into account. I really need this because on the AZERTY keyboard the digits are in CAPS. See the problem? If I type the pinyin in lower cases, which I have to, I can't access the digits without switching to CAPS each time! I've had this problem in Google docs. I'll get to work installing this first thing next week.