[WEB4LIB] Re: language conversion software

[Andrew Cunningham]

Calvin Hsu wrote:
> 
> Great information. As to:
> "if you need pinyin input for traditional chinese you may be out of luck"
> This is no longer a problem with Global IME bundled with Win2K/XP: just
> change the IME settings for Traditional Chinese (Control Panel >Regional
> Options >Input Locales >Traditional Chinese IME >IME settings >middle tab)
> to "luoma pinyin (R)."
> 

Thanks Calvin, i was thinking more of Global IME, rather than the
Chinese IMEs in Win win2000/XP which are significantly different. 

The other interesting think with pinyin input is that each piece of
software ... it behaves differnetly true pintin would be too slow .. so
most versions are an "enhanced" or "super" pinyin ... allowing you to
abbreviate pinyin. Some of the software tries to predict what you'll
type by what you've typed in teh past. Although probbaly wouldn't get as
much mileage on public access computers as you would on a private
computer.

Andrew

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