onebir Posted June 20, 2016 at 08:32 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 at 08:32 AM Pinyin input has died on my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop. Eventually I'll upgrade for a later version, which should fix it, but meanwhile I wondered if there's a decent online or (Firefox-addon) pinyin input app? (Outside China Google translate would do in a pinch, but access to that's unreliable here...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 20, 2016 at 08:45 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 at 08:45 AM Are you trying to type Chinese characters, or pinyin with tone marks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onebir Posted June 20, 2016 at 09:04 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 at 09:04 AM Chinese characters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 20, 2016 at 09:12 AM Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 at 09:12 AM pinyinput.com (unrelated to my own pinyinput - should've registered the domain because I thought of the name first) and inputking.com are the two browser based input methods I'm aware of off the top of my head. I don't know how well they work in China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onebir Posted June 20, 2016 at 11:39 AM Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 at 11:39 AM Thanks - pinyinput.com I tried before, but found horrible for jianti. InputKing seems ok. For Firefox, Fireinput extension seems to work very well. But it takes up a line of browser space & I can't figure out how to get it back open after closing it, short of closing Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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