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Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Jens

Jens — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:00:15 +0000

I am having serious charset problems here. Normally I don’t have any problems displaying Chinese text.

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:26:26 +0000

http://mandarinuncut.com/chinese-subtitles/chinese-english-subtitles-for-world-without-thieves/
^ “A World Without Thieves”
^ Chinese, Pinyin, Literal English, English Meaning

Any others?

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:46:38 +0000

I used an online converter found in this website’s “Tools” link in order to convert characters into Unicode. Key Chinese only works for 30 days. Then what? How do I use Wenlin to convert unicode into parsed Pinyin? Is there any other website/program that can create parsed pinyin?

Comment on How to create Hanyu Pinyin subtitles by Micah

Micah — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:46:36 +0000

I have been living in Taiwan for the past 7 months and have become increasingly DESPERATE to watch movies with subtitles that I can actually read! Is there ANYBODY who can give me any?
Every time I try to follow some guide online, I waste several hours, get really stressed out, and quit. PLEASE: If anybody has a DVD with Hanyu Pinyin subtitles, I REALLY, REALLY WANT IT!
I’m so desperate at this point that I’d be perfectly willing to PAY YOU for a good one!!

Comment on Pinyin sort order by Brother William

Brother William — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:34:00 +0000

everything is okay except the tonal marks. you mean hackers have something against tonal marks?

Comment on Pinyin sort order by Brother William

Brother William — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:27:11 +0000

my google Chrome browswer can’t detect which coding I should use in order to read the discussion and comments.
please let me know.thx!

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by THLam

THLam — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:24:38 +0000

Mr Zhou’s original script should read

è¯è¨€ä½¿äººç±»åˆ«äºŽç¦½å…½ï¼Œ
æ–‡å—ä½¿æ–‡æ˜Žåˆ«äºŽé‡Žè›®ï¼Œ
æ•™è‚²ä½¿å…ˆè¿›åˆ«äºŽè½åŽã€‚

and the pinyin

YÇ”yÃ¡n shÇ rÃ©nlÃ¨i biÃ© yÃº qÃnshÃ²u,
wÃ©nzÃ¬ shÇ wÃ©nmÃng biÃ© yÃº yÄ›mÃ¡n,
jiÃ oyÃ¹ shÇ xiÄnjÃ¬n biÃ© yÃº luÃ²hÃ²u.

Apart from careful proof-reading, the transcription errors could actually be avoided if one knows that a neat structure is usually preferred.

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Sterling

Sterling — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:14:35 +0000

That’s a great honor. I haven’t yet participated in the comments part of this website, but I appreciate your work immensely and read it often.
Sterling Swallow
Taoyuan, Taiwan

Comment on Some fonts not to use for Pinyin by Pinyin Info

Pinyin Info — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:26:56 +0000

I don’t know about Macs. I’ll do a proper post on Windows ones later — once I get this @#$%! hacked site fixed. (Sorry for the problems, everyone!) But, for now, on Windows systems try Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif, and Segoe UI (sans serif); Courier New (monospace); and Times New Roman (serif). Alas, Georgia and Verdana aren’t up to the mark yet. Note, though, that not all early versions of those fonts cover the necessary diacritics. So a really old Arial probably won’t work. (I wish I knew the cut-off point, but I don’t.) Even an old Arial Unicode, however, will work.

Comment on Some fonts not to use for Pinyin by Steven

Steven — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:48:01 +0000

I’ve been loving this series. As someone who is making websites for people studying Chinese, I take this very seriously. I’m have a couple of questions:

1) Are there any standard fonts on mac os x /windows XP/Vista/7 that present pinyin well? Most of your posts seem to be about web fonts, which unfortunately, don’t always perform well, or are about non-standard font (which a website’s users are unlikely to have installed). Any suggestions?

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Gummy Worm

Gummy Worm — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:14:38 +0000

Congratulations and, again, keep up with the good work.

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Pbice

Pbice — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:22:23 +0000

Wow, it’s amazing! Maybe he can break the world record :p

Comment on Zhou Youguang writes about Pinyin.info by Meow

Meow — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:32:16 +0000

You are so honoured! Congratulations!

Comment on Zhou Youguang on politics by Gummy Worm

Gummy Worm — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:35:06 +0000

Same Mistake on Paragraph 3…
“Mr. Zhou is the inventor of Pinyin, the Romanized spelling system that linked Chinaâ€™s ancient written language to the modern age and helped China all but stamp out illiteracy.”

Comment on Zhou Youguang on politics by Pinyin Info

Pinyin Info — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:07:26 +0000

Someone at the NYT changed the caption to “Zhou Youguang, 106, invented Pinyin, a spelling system that links Chinaâ€™s ancient written language to the modern age, and heâ€™s using it to speak his mind,” which is decidedly worse.

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