Google releases Pinyin input method for Windows, IE
Posted by site admin on 05 Apr 2007 at 09:42 am | Tagged as: Chinese, Chinese characters, Mandarin, computers, pinyin, teach Chinese, writing systems
Google has released a Pinyin-based character-input method for Windows systems. It offers a number of special features … which I don’t have time to detail right now, sorry. Read about them here: Google Gǔgē pīnyīn shūrùfǎ gōngnéng jièshào. And download the program from this page.
Google China (GuGe) boosting the Chinese IME with Google Pinyin…
Google’s China presence is growing with new China services for their local Guge coming out often. Google China (GuGe) has just release Google Pinyin, a simple Chinese IME to simplify typing in Pinyin to output Simplified Chinese characters.
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If you downloaded the program more than a day ago, you should get the updated version. The earlier version apparently had a security hole for Vista users. You might want to hurry, because it appears Google lifted some data for this from Sohu and this is getting a lot of press in China.
This is a great tool, definitely better than what you get by default on Windows. I was a little disappointed, however, that there was no English documentation - - my Chinese isn’t quite good enough to understand all the options and what not.
So I spent a few days with a dictionary, and now have a translation of the main setup options. It’s available here to whoever might need it.