Comments on: How to enable handwriting recognition and other features for East Asian languages

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By: Sara Gin

Sara Gin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:10 +0000

I cannot find the Handwriting Pad at all after clicking the IME PAD icon; and how do I mute the noise when I do pinyin input?

By: Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:46:41 +0000

I have given up any further attempts to install the Chinese Handwriting Pad, and accept the Japanese one.

As I had indicated in an earlier post, I installed all Taiwan and PRC IMEs but with no success. I even removed all IMEs and reinstalled them, but again with no success.

This is simply a shot in the dark: Do you think that it is caused by the O/S? I have Vista Ultimate, 64-bit. Do you?

By: Albert (admin)

Albert (admin) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:30:28 +0000

Sorry I am not too sure why? Did you install the Microsoft IME for China under PRC? Make sure it is Chinese (PRC) and not Taiwan or Hong Kong

By: Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:34:11 +0000

Thank you for your response.

I installed all Chinese (Traditional) Taiwan and all Chinese (Simplifed) PRC keyboards and still cannot get the Chinese Handwriting icon. However, I experimented with the Japanese Handwriting IME pad after loading it. I regret that my knowledge of Chinese is very limited and none for Japanese. BUT I discovered the Japanese Handwriting IME Pad to be useful. I tested it with several Traditional Chinese words and the Japanese Handwriting IME Pad is able to correctly recognize them.

There is a difference between the Chinese IME Pad (in my old XP computer) and the Japanese IME Pad, the Chinese IME Pad accept Simplified text (such as ?and ?), but the Japanese IME Pad does not. This is significant. I am learning Chinese and have a need to input in both Simplified and Traditional texts.

I welcome further inputs. Thanks.

By: Albert (admin)

Albert (admin) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:44:26 +0000

Try installing or enabling the Chinese keyboard on your computer

By: Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:35:03 +0000

Your tutorial on “How to enable handwriting recognition and other features for East Asian languages” is very informative. However, what do I do if the Hand Writing (CH) icon (on the left panel), as shown in your example, is not available for selection? In my particular situation, only the Japanese and Korean Hand Writing icons are available–No Chinese.

Please reply

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:29:28 +0000

Three questions if I may…

1) Within the ime pad, I can only find “hand writing (JA)” and “hand writing(KO), but I cannot find “hand writing (CH)”. how can I set that up?

2) I can only get this ime pad to show up with “Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)”. Is there a way to get it to show up for “Chinese (Simplified, PRC)” or even “Chinese (Traditional, HK SAR)”?

3) Is this ime pad supposed to be able to allow me to recognize simplified chinese characters and output simplified chinese characters? The reason I ask is that, not being an able simplified chinese reader myself, i find myself needing to looking up simplified->traditional tranlation a lot. I can cut & paste simplified characters into translators found on the web, but not in the case when I am reading hard copies of simplified text.

Thanks.

Patrick.