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Use control Panel to add East Asian Languages to Windows XP |
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Click on "Start" on the task bar to see a list of commands |
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Click on "Control Panel" and Control Panel appears |
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In the control Panel popup window, click on "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options" |
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In the "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options" window, click on "Regional and Language Options" |
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In the "Regional and Language Options" popup window, click on "Languages" tab |
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On this tab, check the "install files for East Asian language" box |
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A dialog box of "Install Supplemental Language Support" window pops up. Click on button "OK" |
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In the "Reginal and Language Options" window, click on button "Apply" |
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A popup window appears to remind the user to insert Windows XP CD |
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Insert the Windows XP CD. The progress of copying is being shown in "Regional and Language Options" dialog box |
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A dialog box appears asking the user to restart the computer. Click on "Yes" to reboot the system |
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Configure Text services and input languages |
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After system restarted, repeat the steps 1.1 to 1.5 above to get to "Languages" tab of "Regional and Language Options" |
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click on button "Details" |
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In the "Text Services and Input Languages" window, click on button "Add" |
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In the "Add Input Language" window, select "Chinese (PRC)" in the upper box and
select "Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0" in the lower box |
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Click on "OK" |
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Note that "Chinese (PRC)" is added in Text Services and Input Languages window |
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Click on "Advanced" tab in Text Services and Input Language window |
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Check the box for "Extend support of advanced text services to all programs" and
uncheck the box for "Turn off advanced text services" |
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Click on button "Apply", a dialog box pops up asking the user to restart the computer |
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Click on "yes" |
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Specify Pinyin as the Input Method |
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After system restarted, repeat the steps 1.1 to 1.5 above to get to "Languages" tab of "Regional and Language Options" |
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click on button "Details" |
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In the "Text Services and Input Languages" window, highlight "Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0" |
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Click on button "Properties ..." |
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In the "Microsoft Pinyin IME Property" dialog box, check "Full pinyin" oval |
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Click on "OK" in the "Microsoft Pinyin IME Property" dialog box |
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Click on "OK" in the "Text Services and Input Language" dialog box |
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Click on "OK" in the "Regional and Language Options" window |
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Use IME for character input |
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Start a WORD processor (e.g. Microsoft WORD or Notepad) |
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On the task bar, click on "EN" |
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On the popup, click on "Chinese (PRC)" |
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To enter "中国" in the text editor, key in letters "z h o n g" followed by digit "1" for the 1st tone |
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A character for "zhong1" is chosen for you |
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If this character is what you want, depress space bar to confirm it
If this character is not what you want, do the following: |
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depress right-arrow or left-arrow key to display the characters that are pronounced as "zhong1" |
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To choose, click on the character that you want or enter the digit displayed in front of the character |
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depress the space bar to confirm your choice |
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Use the same method to enter the character "guo2" |
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| NOTES |
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Holding down <CTRL> key and depress space bar will toggle between EN and CH
Likewise, holding down <ALT> and depress <SHIFT> key can toggle between EN and CH also
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To enter symbols (e.g. 标点符号) |
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Right Click the "CH" on the task bar |
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select "Restore the Language bar" |
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On the language bar, click on "Punctuation", now you're ready to depress symbol key on the keyboard |
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Use digit "5" for the light tone
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