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Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Stu — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:10 -0000

Thanks for the OP and contributors. Life savers!

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

pumpkinslayer — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:29:45 -0000

All fruit baskets accepted gladly Tim :) but you can send it on to someone
special instead. Glad it worked for you. Cheers.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Dlc_73 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:53:24 -0000

How did you type...I am still not sure. I have Windows 7 and the language bar never appears.

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Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

pumpkinslayer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:00:35 -0000

"ALT + Shift" is the standard shortcut for switching between languages.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Lyiu87 — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:18:03 -0000

is there a shortcut to switch between chinese and english without clicking the toolbar?

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Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

pumpkinslayer — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:06:19 -0000

Awesome. I just checked that out and yeah, ctrl+shift+t switches between traditional and simplified. Good catch.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Josh — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:44:53 -0000

Apparently ctrl+shift+t is a shortcut for switching between the dictionaries too!
I think the best would be to have both options on the language bar (like in your screenshot) but have them both go to Google's IME but with different settings. I'll probably forget this shortcut by the next time I want to use it.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Tim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:26:03 -0000

Thank you so much! After hours and hours of battling with Windows 7 (the language bar never appears, and so neither traditional nor simplified input is possible), this post finally allowed me to type in Chinese in Windows 7! If I could send you a fruit basket, I would.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

pumpkinslayer — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:51:12 -0000

There's been a fairly major layout change since this guide was done.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Matt Mayer — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:01:04 -0000

Thanks for that! I somehow managed to switch into traditional and wanted to get back into Simplified. The dialog seems to have changed slightly, the checkbox is now the third item on the tab.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

pumpkinslayer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:42:09 -0000

My pleasure. I found it very frustrating not being able to get it working. It is a very useful tool, but assumes that you're an advanced Chinese speaker to get it going. I'm glad it worked for you.

Re: How to select Traditional Chinese in the Google Pinyin tool

Name — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:49:18 -0000

Thanks so much! I have trouble reading chinese, yet I still type chinese (traditional, anyway). Appreciate your time and effort!