{"id":361,"date":"2006-03-27T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/setting-up-windows-systems-for-pinyin-input\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:39:00","slug":"setting-up-windows-systems-for-pinyin-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/setting-up-windows-systems-for-pinyin-input\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows computer systems and Pinyin input of Chinese characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get messages from people asking how to use Hanyu Pinyin to input Chinese characters on their English-language Windows systems. But the most I&#8217;ve ever added to my site on this topic is a brief page on <a href=\"\/tools\/character_entry\/index.html\">using Pinyin to type Chinese characters on a U.S. English Windows 2000 system<\/a>. Fortunately for everyone, now there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pinyinjoe.com\/\"><strong>Pinyin Joe&#8217;s Chinese computing resources<\/strong><\/a>, which explains in user-friendly detail how to set up Western-language Windows XP computers to input Chinese characters using Pinyin and even <a href=\"\/romanization\/bopomofo\/\">zhuyin fuhao<\/a>. I certainly don&#8217;t recommend using zhuyin; but it&#8217;s nice to know the information on how to type it (both by itself and for character input) is available and put forward so clearly. <\/p>\n<p>The site covers a few other areas as well. Check it out. Pinyin Joe&#8217;s also promises to cover Vista once Microsoft finally releases it. <\/p>\n<p>Another good place to ask related questions is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumosa.com\/\">Forumosa<\/a>&#8216;s technology forum, especially within the thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/forumosa.com\/taiwan\/viewtopic.php?t=7240\">Hanyu Pinyin input for XP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get messages from people asking how to use Hanyu Pinyin to input Chinese characters on their English-language Windows systems. But the most I&#8217;ve ever added to my site on this topic is a brief page on using Pinyin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/setting-up-windows-systems-for-pinyin-input\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-pinyin","category-software","category-zhuyin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}