How To Write Chinese Characters In Word For Mac

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Note: Until a more complete in-house guide is made for this, see the external tutorials and resources at the bottom of the page.

See the directions under your operating system to quickly get your web browser to display Chinese characters.

Chinese Pinyin input or macro: When using a Pinyin input method (or my Pinyin macros for Word and Excel ) in Windows, Mac, Linux, or almost any other operating system, if you don't have u-with-diaeresis on your keyboard, then type the letter 'v' like this. For iPhones – you have to set Cantonese (Chinese – HK) as the default language for Siri. Go Settings Siri Language (choose Chinese (Cantonese – Hong Kong). Then when you want to voice type in Cantonese, just go to the Chinese keyboard (where you normally hand-write), click the ‘mic’ icon at the left bottom (left of the space bar), and speak your Cantonese sentences!

Cross Platform[edit]

Chinese Handwriting Input free download - Google Input Tools, LingoWare Chinese (Simplified), NJStar Chinese Word Processor, and many more programs. Close the dialog box, start Word. Click the language input icon on the menu bar and choose 'Pinyin - Simplified' Type the reading of the Chinese character you want; a list of characters that match that reading will appear below. Click the one you want or press the matching number.

• Make sure you have a Chinese font available. Find somewhere to look at the font lists, and see if you can see something like Chinese characters. If you have one, make it the default in your browser and check.
• If you don't have a Chinese font:

1. Download A font as in #Programs.
2. Install the font. Use right-click install on Windows, the Font Book in Mac OS, or the method provided by your desktop environment in Linux.
3. Make it the default selection in your browser. Just choose your favourite.

Windows[edit]

Windows Vista[edit]

Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista displays Chinese characters properly without any configuration.

For program written in non-Unicode, go to Control Panel --> Regional and Language Options --> Administrative tab --> Language for non-Unicode programs, set it to whatever Chinese language you want.

Windows XP[edit]

If Chinese character't display properly for you, first check if you need to install East Asian language support files. To do this:

1. Click Start > Control Panel. Select the Date, Time, Regional and Language Options category, then click Regional and Language Options.
2. On the Languages tab, select the checkbox labeled Install files for East Asian languages.
3. Click OK when a dialog box appears informing you of the storage requirements for the language files (230 MB).
4. Click OK on the Languages tab.
5. Another dialog box appears requesting a Windows XP installation disk or network share location where the language support files are located. Insert a Windows XP installation CD or browse to the appropriate network location, and click OK. Windows may not always ask for a installation CD. Microsoft Windows installs the necessary files and prompts for you to restart the computer.
6. Click Yes to restart the computer.

Windows 95, 98 or ME[edit]

In order to display Chinese characters properly, you need to download two packages from Microsoft.

If you don't have Office XP:

1. Go to this Microsoft site.
2. Select Chinese (Simplified) - with Language Pack in the dropdown box.
3. Click Go.
4. Download the file scmondo.exe, open it and follow the instructions.
5. Do the same for Chinese (Traditional) - with Language Pack and then tcmondo.exe.

If you do have Office XP:

1. Download this file and this one from Microsoft.
2. Execute imechs.exe.
3. Follow the instructions.
4. Do the same for imecht.exe.

Mac OS[edit]

Mac OS (X) should support displaying Chinese characters natively. If it doesn't work, refer to #Cross Platform.

Input[edit]

1. Click the Apple icon on top left corner.
2. Click System Preferences
3. Click Language and Text icon
4. Click Input Sources tab
5. Tick Chinese Simplified, Pinyin and/or Trackpad Handwriting

(Handwriting feature only available in Snow Leopard or above)

To set up keyboard shortcuts for changing input language

1. Click the Apple icon on top left corner.
2. Click System Preferences
3. Click Keyboard icon
4. Click Keyboard shortcuts tab
5. Click Keyboard & Text Input in the column
6. Check 'Select next source in input menu'.

(Typical: command + space)

Linux[edit]

Linux supports Sinitic fonts in a number of formats. in particular LaTeX CJK, and True Type among others.

Just make sure you are using a UTF-8 locale.

Tutorials[edit]

Programs[edit]

• Adobe Reader Asian Font Packs - Allows the display of Asian fonts in Adobe PDF files.
• NJStar Explorer - Free web browser with hassle-free CJK support as its goal.
• Source Han Sans - An Apache-Licensed Sans/Hei(黑) font with a huge character coverage by Google and Adobe.
• WenQuanYi - A set of GPL-Licensed Sans/Hei(黑) fonts by fangq and his community.
• I.Open Source Fonts - Artistic Chinese fonts.

Mac System 10.6 (Snow Leopard) now includes a handwriting recognition option for inputting Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), which is an adaptation from the iPhone 2.0 system. The rest of the entry will provide instructions on how to activate it, but note that it only works on a laptop with a trackpad. As far as I can tell, you cannot do this with a mouse.

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Activation

1. Go to the Apple menu and open Systems Preferences.
2. Click Language & Text (U.N. flag icon).
   
3. Click the tab for Input Sources check either Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. Make sure that the Trackpad Handwriting option is also checked.
   
4. Close the System Preferences window.

Use the Trackpad

1. Open a software application such as a word processor, spread-sheet or any other application in which you need to enter text.
2. On the upper right portion of the screen, click on the American flag icon (). Use the dropdown menu to select Show Trackpad Writing.
   
3. A welcome message will be displayed. Click OK to open the track pad.
4. A semi transparent dark gray window appears. You can draw in the trackpad and see the list of suggested characters. Note that a delete button is shown in the upper left
   
5. To select a character, drag your finger on the right edge of the trackpad until the correct character is highlighted, then tap once.
6. To clear the trackpad, tap once on the upper left corner.
7. To exit the track pad, press Shift+Control+SpaceBar
8. To disable the track pad, open the Language and Text options in System Preferences and uncheck the trackpad options.

Note to fellow ETS Employees: Trackpad interferes with SnapzPro, so be warned if you are testing or planning to use this.

Comments

I don't know the Chinese script, so can't judge the accuracy or ease of the input. However, I would warn that the trackpad disables normal keyboard and mouse operations. For instance, if you need to switch applications, you need to close the track pad (Shift+Control+Spacebar, do the switch, then reopen the trackpad from the flag/keyboard menu). Not very convenient.

It's important to remember that this was built for the iPhone, so probably works best there.

Video Demo (from shoki6229)

Postscript: Japanese

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One may wonder how the trackpad handles Japanese, and the answer seems to be that while you can input Chinese characters (kanji), or at least the ones still used in Traditional Chinese, you really can't input Hiragana or Katakana. That means you would need to toggle between the Trackpad and alternate methods of Japanes input. In fact the Trackpad is NOT listed in the menu of Japanese input methods in Snow Leopard.

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