{"id":481,"date":"2006-08-09T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/typing-in-pinyin-on-a-windows-2000xp-system\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T08:58:32","slug":"typing-in-pinyin-on-a-windows-2000xp-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/typing-in-pinyin-on-a-windows-2000xp-system\/","title":{"rendered":"typing in Pinyin on a Windows 2000\/XP system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Frazier has used the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/globaldev\/tools\/msklc.mspx\">Microsoft keyboard layout creator<\/a> to devise a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neveroddoreven.info\/uspinyin\/\">keyboard method for entering Pinyin texts with tone marks<\/a>. This will work on Windows 2000 and XP systems. <\/p>\n<p>Basically, to type a vowel with a tone mark, first press the key corresponding to the tone you want and then the vowel (or &#8220;v&#8221; for &uuml;). Many may find this method preferable to using an online tool that converts Pinyin tone numbers to tone marks (my own <a href=\"\/unicode\/marks3.html\">online converter<\/a> being desperately in need of an update) or a separate program such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wenlin.com\/\">Wenlin<\/a> (or its free but tremendously useful <a href=\"http:\/\/wenlin.com\/demo.htm\">demo version<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>To download and install this Pinyin-entry tool, follow the directions on Jason&#8217;s Web page. I&#8217;ve added a screenshot below to help clarify part of the installation process. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/news_photos\/2006\/08\/pinyin_input.gif\" alt=\"screenshot of method to add pinyin keyboard layout\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Frazier has used the free Microsoft keyboard layout creator to devise a keyboard method for entering Pinyin texts with tone marks. This will work on Windows 2000 and XP systems. Basically, to type a vowel with a tone mark, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/typing-in-pinyin-on-a-windows-2000xp-system\/\">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":[12,32,20,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}