[xx_smilez]

How can I type in Chinese (cantonese)?

[awdark]

I dunno about for cantonese.

If you go to the control panel, regional and language options, languages tab, click details you can add a chinese input support. The problem is im not sure if they have a cantonese one. I know the last time I tried it I had to bust out my super highschool mandarin pinyin skills (which is rather primitive lol)

[Ayuu~]

yeh.. what awdark said!!

except.. YEH they do have cantonese!!
u choose the HK one

[sixth.]

Whenever I try to enter my Control Panel and then edit and language settings, the whole screen just freezes up and I can't do anything. Is there any other way to do this?

[awdark]

>_< thats not good. I think thats the way to do it short of using different software to do the input. Maybe you should let the computer freeze and sit there a while... hopefully it will figure it out and give you the correct menu.

[happyroach]

Try NJstar. The communicator has Chinese/Japanese/Korean IMEs in various input methods, Cantonese included

[xx_smilez]

i'm kind of confused.. i'm not really looking for how to read chinese, but to type using it temporarily. How can I form a character? As for NJstar, it has a limited 30-day trial or you have to purchase it. I saw in lyrics forum, korean characters-- how do they do that? I'm looking for the same thing, except cantonese. =]

[awdark]

Time for some visual powers!


Once you add that, the start bar will get a language option bar on the bottm. When you choose chinese, (will use mandarin as my sample because I have tried that) it will popup a box so you can start typing.

So you type Ni it will show you a bunch of characters that sound like ni
Then you type hao and it will show you a few characters taht sound like that too. And you end up with a bunch of characters

[xx_smilez]

awdark, you are awfully kind to put that up for me =]. I followed exactly what you wrote, except the "popup box" doesn't show. I only see the language bar with the Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) By the way, I have XP so it might be a little diff.

Do I have to install the East Asian Language Support though?

[awdark]

Orly?
Why dont you try to see if it will type in say the reply box here.. set it to chinese input and input something.. see what comes up I dunno and a bit lazy to try

[xx_smilez]

no, nothing shows. This is all my language bar shows: .

EDIT: never mind, I just installed the handwriting option. Now how do I get the IME to show?

[awdark]

I see, it seems to be a very specific input system...

If you go back to that and set it to
Chinese (PRC) [yes, thats mandarin]
then look at the default chinese simpiflied tey have the MS Pinyin IME.

That would give the box thing... I wonder how you would enter cantonese...

[xx_smilez]

When you choose chinese, (will use mandarin as my sample because I have tried that) it will popup a box so you can start typing.

So you type Ni it will show you a bunch of characters that sound like ni
Then you type hao and it will show you a few characters taht sound like that too. And you end up with a bunch of characters

how do I get here ^
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This is what I have:

[Genuine]

How do you start typing chinese characters exactly? i changed my language to Chinese hong kong and it still doesn't type chinese?

[vc1188]

I dunno about for cantonese.

If you go to the control panel, regional and language options, languages tab, click details you can add a chinese input support. The problem is im not sure if they have a cantonese one. I know the last time I tried it I had to bust out my super highschool mandarin pinyin skills (which is rather primitive lol)

is there any way to use HANYU PINYIN to type? I don't have a keyboard with zhuyin on them so I don't know what keys to press haha x_X

[Rainie]

Try NJstar. The communicator has Chinese/Japanese/Korean IMEs in various input methods, Cantonese included

Yeah, that's what I use...the NJstar Communicator

[awdark]

is there any way to use HANYU PINYIN to type? I don't have a keyboard with zhuyin on them so I don't know what keys to press haha x_X

I would really like to see how those keyboards wrok.

But refer to my screenshot. See Chinese (Hongkong sars)?
Choose Chinese (PRC)

It defaults to Pinyin input. That input in combination with a good chinese dictionary and online translators (babelfish.altavista.com or google) I can pretend to be able to read and write chinese

[xx_smilez]

can someone please help? I am still having trouble with this. I don't have a "pop-up/writing pad" with the chinese characters.. nothing.

[awdark]

Can you do mandarin with the pinyin? I really have no idea how it works especially since I didnt know they had cantonese input.

[__CHINA.DOLL]

what if you dont have chinese under the language thing ><