Windows 7 RC1 & writing Chinese?

[flameproof]

I am considering to switch to English Win7 RC1. Can it write Chinese?

How about the usefull add ons, Chinese-PeraKun? ZDT? Everything working fine?

For those who haven't tried, you can D/L free of charge from microsoft.com and it will work till July 2010 or so.

[aristotle1990]

都好

Typed on Windows 7 RC 1. Everything works just fine.

[zedar]

did you install in chinese?

I installed 7RC1 in english and would like to add chinese input but can't find the package on the download or website

[aristotle1990]

Search for "Region and Language", click on "Change keyboards", and then click "Add...". Pick whatever IME you want.

[flameproof]

I installed English W7. Now I got the language bar and can switch between English and Chinese (PRC). You need to try some different IME to make it work. The Microsoft IME work fine.

In another development: Chinese Perakun works as normal (Firefox addon)

W7 displays also Chinese in the browser without any special add-ons.

English QQ 2009Beta works also fine, can read and write Chinese.

Edited May 14, 2009 at 02:37 PM by flameproof

[Hofmann]

Using Windows 7 64 RC1

Microsoft New Phonetic IME 10.1. 沒問題。

Microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input Style 10.1 沒問題。

用搜狗拼音沒問題。

[flameproof]

It seems that I can't switch between trad. & simpl. in the Chinese CN group. That was an option in the Xp IME. Or did I overlooked something (again).

[Jackalope]

I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate as well as additional input languages for Chinese simplified & traditional. The thing is, I have the language bar set to CH Chinese (Simplified, PRC) input, but cannot figure out how to enter Chinese characters. I've never used this feature before, as I'm a beginning student of Mandarin. Any help? Microsoft wants to charge me to ask for help on this.

[aristotle1990]

I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate as well as additional input languages for Chinese simplified & traditional. The thing is, I have the language bar set to CH Chinese (Simplified, PRC) input, but cannot figure out how to enter Chinese characters. I've never used this feature before, as I'm a beginning student of Mandarin. Any help? Microsoft wants to charge me to ask for help on this.

In the language bar settings, click on "Add", scroll down to "Chinese, simplified, China", check the "Microsoft Pinyin IME" (not the ABC one), hit confirm, and...that's pretty much it. 加油！

[Jackalope]

Thanks for your help. I had the keyboard set to "Chinese Simplified US Keyboard" thinking that this meant 'Method for using a US style keyboard to write simplified Chinese characters".

现在我懂!谢谢!