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Missing Pinyin IME keyboard

hellopanda — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:02:19 -0800

Trying to add Chinese as an input language in Windows Vista Ultimate, but the Pinyin IME keyboard option does not appear. Selecting any of the Chinese languages (PRC/Taiwan etc) only brings up the option of a "US keyboard". How do I fix this? Incidentally, all Chinese text turns up as gibberish, whether viewing documents in Microsoft Word or viewing websites on IE/Firefox. I've tried all the available character encoding options in the browsers, but none has worked so far. I assume these issues will be fixed once a Chinese keyboard has been added to the language bar, but if the problems are not connected, I would also appreciate some tips in this respect.

How to remap Windows XP keyboard shortcuts to standard Apple shortcuts

Frankieist — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:45 -0800

I'm used to the keyboard shortcuts on OS X, but I have to use a Windows PC at work. What are some ways that I can remap the keys on XP to get as close to Apple's as possible? I recently set up one of the new Apple Aluminum keyboards on my PC. The drivers are set up fine, so the default windows keyboard shortcuts work on it (Ctrl+alt+del, Command => the Windows key, etc.). I've tried searching google, but many of the options are only partial solutions, and I'm not sure how well they'll work together.

The specific keyboard mappings I'm most interested in changing are:

The ability to use Apple's accent and diacritic shortcuts (e.g. option+e for acute accent, option+c for cedilla). I find the US-International IME on Windows to be a pain.

Some of the OS X shortcuts borrowed from emacs, like Ctrl+A for beginning of line, Ctrl+E for end of line, Ctrl+K for delete to end of line.

Some other text navigation shortcuts, such as option+→ for move forward one word, option+← for move back one word.

I don't really much use the windows key, and I miss the ability to use alt as a meta key (Just using it for menus seems like a waste of a good key). Can any of this be done, or do I just have to deal with using different shortcuts at work and home?

New Pinyin IME

afu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:21:06 -0800

I need a better Pinyin input system than Microsoft Pinyin IME. I like how Microsoft pinyin works in general, but it is way to buggy and slow. Typing in Chinese shouldn't noticeably slow my computer down. Plus the learning algorithm it uses makes no sense. I type in "nihao" and it gives me 倪豪 first instead of 你好.

Any suggestions for better input systems that use the same general style would be welcome. (I'm not about to attempt wubi).

Japanese IME on Ubuntu

DoctorFedora — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:26:48 -0800

Japanese IME on Ubuntu? Help! I'm a long-time Windows user switching over to ~~n00buntu~~ Ubuntu 6.10 in the hopes that it'll run faster and more stable than a couple-years-old XP install on an oldish laptop.

However, one of the nicest features of Windows that I remember was the ridiculously feature-rich Japanese IME for non-Japanese keyboards, and Linux doesn't seem to feature that sort of thing natively. It isn't a dealbreaker, but I definitely liked having it around.

I've recently found out about a piece of software called IM-JA though, but I seriously need a walkthrough of this sort of thing -- I'm a near-complete *NIX newbie who was so thoroughly trained in DOS Back In The Day that the *NIX command line is baffling, like learning a second foreign language years after your first.

Anyway, can anyone help me get IM-JA running with the same level of integration and ubiquity that Windows' IME had? And for bonus points, can anyone offer advice on getting GJiten running from basically a fresh Ubuntu install?

Using font subsets in Acrobat Pro.

RavinDave — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:59:10 -0800

How do I embed a Chinese font subset into an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file? This is driving me batty. I know there has to be a simple explanation I'm missing, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to create a portable document with Chinese characters.

I'm using Microsoft's IME to input Mandarin Chinese into a standard Word document -- then converting it to a PDF. Displays fine when I view it -- but only because I have the fonts on my system. If I take it to another computer, I just get the [][][][][][]s.

What ultra-simple "guaranteed-to-make-me-look-stupid" step am I overlooking? How can I tell Acrobat to embed a font subset?

Problem with Chinese IME in XP

Sangermaine — Tue, 10 May 2005 23:20:05 -0800

I am trying to add Chinese to the Language Bar in Windows XP Professional. I have in the past successfully added Japanese with no problem, but when I try to add the Chinese IME, I get this message: "Windows could not properly load the Chinese (PRC) - Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard layout." How can I fix this?

Windows locale troubles

squidlarkin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:01:19 -0800

?????! I can type in Japanese and have a slightly broken OS as a result. I'm running win2k, and I've installed the Japanese input option, which works great. The catch is that in certain contexts, certain extended ASCII characters are displayed as Japanese characters; for example, my command prompt is "C:¥>". This I can cope with. The problem is that:

1) Certain apps (mostly ones written in Java, so far) assume I want a Japanese interface. I do not.

2) Playing Nethack is a living hell.

Chances are at this point you're nodding your head and saying, "This is easy! He's got his locale set to Japan!", but no, it's clearly set as English (United States).