Custom Search Chinese Language Features in Windows 7 and Windows Vista A Quick Start Guide to Chinese Language Features in Western Versions of Windows 7 and Vista On this page: Setup pages: ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ For those upgrading from Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista offer many powerful new Chinese features in much better, more powerful operating systems. For those upgrading from Vista, Windows 7 is not so much a great leap forward as it is the end of a bad dream: this is the stable operating system that Vista was intended to be. The main focus of this site is of course Pinyin setup, but I also cover Zhuyin (Bopomofo), Chinese fonts, Language Packs and other features here.

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I also have a section that covers common issues with Windows and Office, and I've even written a short piece on. Click each image above to see the U.S. Prices on Amazon.com. All versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista are eligible for upgrade, but you should download the free or the free to ensure your PC is compatible. You can read and write Chinese in all major versions of Windows 7 and Vista: Starter, Home Premium, Vista Business, Win 7 Professional, and Ultimate. Chinese features are also available in Enterprise, if your license includes these features and if your IT department decides to install them. IT departments sometimes customize Enterprise and Business/Professonal installations to remove language features.

I think there was also a version of Vista called Home Basic, but I've never seen it so I can't comment on that one. Windows Ultimate, and most installations of Windows Enterprise, also include 'Language Packs' that will change the Windows and Internet Explorer UI (the user interface: menus, dialogs, etc.) into Chinese, but please note that you do not need Language Packs to view and type Chinese. Following is a summary of the most important Chinese features, with links to additional pages with more details. Displaying Chinese Characters in Windows 7 and Vista Unlike Windows XP, in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you do not need to ' as a separate step after installation of the system.

The new Windows can display Chinese characters as soon as you start up the first time. Chinese should automatically display in Internet Explorer and most other browsers without any special setup. In the rare event that Chinese shows up as 'garbage' or empty boxes, try manually adjusting the Encoding in Internet Explorer's 'Page' menu. Microsoft Word and most other applications should also display Chinese by default. Problems may occur due to missing fonts.

Try selecting the text and choosing a Simplified or Traditional Chinese font from the font menu to fix this. Chinese Input Method Editors (IME) in Windows 7 Windows 7 and Vista include an upgraded Chinese (Simplified, mainland / Singapore) Microsoft Pinyin 'New Experience' IME, with better candidate prediction and even Traditional characters (in Microsoft's version of GB encoding). The Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan/HK/Macau) New Phonetic input method, which includes both Zhuyin and Pinyin input, is upgraded in Windows 7 with new preference options such as candidate list font size. Free updates were released in 2010 to update XP, Vista and Windows 7 with even more. The mainland includes the new Sogou-like Microsoft Pinyin 'SimpleFast', while the Taiwan (for which you do not need Office) includes updates to existing input methods plus new (or returning) options for Cantonese Jyutping, Unicode encoding, and Simplified character support. Windows 7 or Vista Pinyin Setup: Windows 7 or Vista Zhuyin / Bopomofo Setup: Chinese input method updates for Windows 7, Vista and XP: Pinyin Macros, plus more IMEs, fonts and apps:. Chinese Fonts in Windows 7 Windows 7 and Vista include the following Chinese fonts.

I have a page full of actual for you, but first I thought I should list the font names as you will find them in many menus. In some programs you will see the same names with an '@' sign in front of them: those are the 'vertical'/rotated versions. Future Pinball Simpsons Downloads here. Supported by Chinese (PRC) keyboards, including MSPY: DFKai-SB FangSong_GB2312 KaiTi Microsoft JhengHei Microsoft YaHei MingLiU MingLiU-ExtB MingLiU_HKSCS* MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB NSimsun PMingLiU** PMingLiU-ExtB SimHei Simsun*** Simsun-ExtB Supported by Chinese (Taiwan) keyboards, including MSNP: DFKai-SB Microsoft JhengHei MingLiU MingLiU-ExtB PMingLiU** PMingLiU-ExtB *'HKSCS' fonts include Hong Kong Cantonese characters. **PMingLiU is the default font for Chinese (Taiwan) keyboards. ***Simsun is the default font for Chinese (PRC) keyboards. (Not listed here but also included: new fonts for Yi, Uighur, Tibetan & Mongolian.) For more detail, including samples of each font, please see the following pages: See also my survey of. Language Packs (MUI) in Windows 7 and Vista Windows Ultimate, and most installations of Enterprise include 'Language Packs' that change the Windows and Internet Explorer user interface (menus, dialog boxes, etc.) into Chinese or other languages.

You do not need a Language Pack to display or type Chinese. You do need a Language Pack for handwriting recognition input in Windows 7, or if you want Windows and IE menus in Chinese in Windows 7 or Vista. Language Packs will not change any of your English applications, and to display Chinese!

MS Office Language Packs must be purchased separately. Other companies (like Adobe) usually require purchase of separate localized editions. In Windows XP these were called as 'Multilingual User Interface Packs', or MUI, and they were only available when purchased with Windows XP in a special bundle. But Windows Vista and Windows 7 Language Packs for over thirty different languages can be downloaded and added to Ultimate and Enterprise systems for no additional charge. For more information, see: Windows 7 Regional Wallpaper: Scenic Desktop Pictures from China and Other Asian Countries OK, so this isn't exactly a language feature per se, but Windows 7 includes some very nice desktop backgrounds, and they seem to be different across regions.

I've collected the pictures for Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and India and posted them to this. Other Features in Windows Vista and Windows 7: Chinese Handwriting Input, IME Pads, Speech Features & IDN As this is ' Pinyin Joe's' website, you won't see much here about other input methods, including handwriting input and speech features, but here's a some basic info: • Traditional character handwriting recognition is available in every version of Windows, in the Taiwan/HK/Macau IME's Phonetic keyboard 'IME Pad'. If you don't have that in New Phonetic, try installing the, but you'll also find it in the older 'Phonetic' keyboard too. It will be in the Tool Menu. • Traditional and Simplified character handwriting recognition is also in the 'Tablet PC Input Panel' (which works on all PCs, not just tablets).

This is included in Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise, and also in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise after the installation of free. • IME Pads and other tools are available for inputting characters by radical, stroke, or Unicode number. If you do not have the Simplified character IME Pad, install the.

Information on the Traditional character IME Pad is discussed the first bullet above. I discuss these topics further in my introduction to because I get questions about this mostly from scholars working with older texts. • You also need for Chinese text-to-speech (featuring the voice of Microsoft Lili) and speech recognition input. • I also don't have much to say about international domain name (IDN) support, although this is big news for the Unicode and domaineer crowds. For a brief backgrounder on all of these additional features, please see my earlier and my intro to.

OneDrive is a cloud-based storage service where you can view, browse, upload, and share the files you saved online to. Store any file on OneDrive and it's automatically available to access or share from any device. When you install and setup the OneDrive desktop app on a Windows PC, a copy of your OneDrive is downloaded to your PC and put in the 'OneDrive' folder.

This folder is kept in sync with your online. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder on OneDrive.com, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted in your OneDrive folder on your PC and vice versa.

You could also (if turned on) on your PC from any computer on OneDrive.com To upload files to OneDrive automatically, just copy or move the files to your OneDrive folder using File Explorer, or save them in your OneDrive folder from a program. Files you upload this way can be up to 2 GB in size. If you installed the OneDrive app on other computers, the files will automatically be added to the OneDrive folders on them, too.

You can also use File Explorer to rename and delete files, create new folders, and move files around in your OneDrive folder. The changes will automatically be made on OneDrive and your other computers that have the OneDrive app installed. The OneDrive desktop app has been replaced by new 'SkyDrive' app features that are built into Windows 8.1.

The desktop app settings and status info are no longer available from the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar. If you install the SkyDrive desktop app, it will look like nothing happened. The desktop app features won't be reinstalled. Syncing only selected folders works a little differently. • If you chose to keep your files and settings when you updated Windows, everything you originally synced in your SkyDrive folder will be available offline.

Anything you add to SkyDrive from another location will be online-only by default. To make sure that the files you want are available offline on your PC regardless of where you create them, use the steps earlier in this topic to make items available offline. • If you didn't keep your files and settings when you updated Windows, everything in your SkyDrive folder is online-only. To make sure that the files you want are available offline on your PC, use the steps earlier in this topic to make items available offline. Tip You might want to move any folders you already have on SkyDrive to the Documents and Pictures folders on SkyDrive to make them easier to work with in your apps. Hello, as always fantastic, detailed tutorial Brink.