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There are your two primary options for Traditional character Pinyin input methods in Windows Vista and Windows Click on the Windows Start menu button, then click "Control Panel". Click on " Change keyboards or other input methods. Or, double-click here if you are using the Control Panel's "Classic View":. The above is a screen shot from Vista. Windows 7 offers a list-based view that is also intended to ease your transition from XP.

When "Text Services and Input Languages" appears:. In the Taskbar, in the Language bar at the lower-right of your screen, you will now find a "CH" option for "Chinese Traditional, Taiwan ":. After you install the Update for this IME, you can install these input method choices:. Is there a way to adjust the size of the text in this window? Microsoft Pinyin supports Traditional!

Then look at your task bar. After selecting this option once, it should move to the taskbar. If it's still not there, install the MSPY update. You can also get this started and find more preferences via the Options menu, as I'll show below. But first, a bit of information for you. For those of you that exchange Traditional character messages with people in the mainland, using this feature this a good idea because mixed encoding eventually causes emails to get scrambled.

But for everyone else, the fact that this PRC input method will default to PRC GB font encoding instead of Big 5 even when writing Traditional characters will be what we call in business a "deal-killer". However, when I wrote up the instructions I found myself listing far too many disadvantages to recommend it.

Chinese Computing Help Desk. Custom Search. This is the most common choice. Even though this is normally used for Simplified characters, you can set the Options to Traditional characters. This has a lot of potential but also a few very serious drawbacks. When "Region and Language" appears: Click the "Change keyboards Don't worry, despite the name of this button your English keyboard will remain available at all times after we're done.

In Windows 7, this is "Chinese Traditional, Taiwan ". Click on the plus sign there and next to "Keyboard". Click the checkbox to select "Chinese Traditional - New Phonetic". You may also select other input methods if you are familiar with them. Note: These settings can also be accessed later via the Options menu in the Language Bar. Previous page: 1. Simplified Chinese Pinyin input setup Next pages: 3.

Adjusting the Language Bar and shortcuts 4. Although I believe the MSPY "New Experience" is a better input method than Microsoft New Phonetic, there are still too many drawbacks: Most important, in Traditional Chinese mode it does not support "Self-learning" sorting character and phrase candidates according to your frequency of usage.

Notice that in this slice of an Options window screen shot below, "Enable Self-learning" is grayed out. For me, this is a deal-killer! The accuracy of a Pinyin input method depends heavily on the characters automatically sorting as you use it. I've also tested the third choice, "Extended Character Set".

This contains both Simplified and Traditional and does support Self-learning, but getting this to favor Traditional characters requires many many hours of training and user-defined phrase dictionary editing, and even then it will probably mix the two sets together far too often to allow fast and convenient typing if you are trying to use only Traditional Chinese.

This does not mean you cannot write out standalone Zhuyin with the PRC keyboard however. It is in the soft keyboards, as I explain on my Windows 7 Zhuyin setup page.

There are times when the system gets confused, especially when you are also working in Simplified characters: it starts out in a Simplified font anyway, and won't let you change that line to a Traditional font. For many people the easiest solution is to erase the entire line or even open a new document and start over.

As I mentioned above, you will be working only in GB encoding fonts, not Big 5. But as I said, this is not a drawback for anyone who exchanges Traditional character messages with people in the mainland, because mixed encoding eventually causes emails to get scrambled.

On the other hand, if you try using this MSPY feature while writing to people in Taiwan, you run the risk of your messages turning into a bunch of garbage characters with no way to recover the original content. About Pinyin Input. Ubuntu Linux Chinese. Other OS: Android, Mac, Free Downloads. All Rights Reserved.