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Sep 11, 2008
Tips on How to Install Chinese Language in Windows XP
by GlueTooth|
As a computer user, you often have necessity to understand web sites or documents that go outside the reach of Latin languages standardization. One of the most expansive web markets in the World is China. Knowing Chinese languages today is a must, especially in computer communication. This article will show you the steps for installing Chinese language on a computer running Windows XP, so you can both read and write in them. Step 1. First, user should open the Control Panel dialog box by clicking on the Start button, and then on Control Panel. If by default the Control Panel is in the new Category View, click on Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options under Pick a Category (Go on to Step 2). If it’s in the Classic View, then just double click on the Regional and Language Options icon to open the Regional and Language Options dialog box (Go on to Step 3). Step 2. After opening Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options, click on Regional and Language Options under or Pick a Panel Control icon. Step 3. In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, click on the Languages tab. Step 4. In the Languages tab for the Regional and Language Options dialog box, check the box for Install East Asian Languages under Supplemental language support. Then click Apply and OK.  Step 5. Once the language files have been installed, click on the Details... button under Text services and input languages while you are still under the Languages tab for the Regional and Language Options dialog box. You’ll get the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Click on the Add... button under Installed services. * The following 3 steps explain how to install Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 for simplified Chinese. (If you’re installing Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a for traditional Chinese, skip to Step 10). Step 6. After you have clicked the Add... button under Installed services as mentioned in Step 5, you get the Add Input Language dialogue box. Choose Chinese (PRC) from the drop-down menu under Input Language, check the Keyboard Layout / IME button, and then pick Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0. Then click OK.  Step 7. You are back to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. You’ll note that under Chinese (PRC) /Keyboard, Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 is now listed. Click Apply and then OK. Step 8. After you have installed Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, you may want to tune its properties. To do this, first select Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 under Installed services in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box by clicking on and highlighting it. Then click on Properties to bring up the Properties dialog box for Microsoft Pinyin 3.0.  * Note - It is strongly recommended that the default options be left in place especially if you’re inexperienced user. Step 9. Microsoft Pinyin 3.0 allows toggling between traditional and simplified Chinese input, and so if you want to be able to write both traditional and simplified characters, you may not need to install a traditional Chinese input option additionally. After you finished installing Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, you should see a floating language bar near the top of the screen, or if instead of the floating language bar, you see a language button on the taskbar on the bottom of the screen, click on the button to bring up a list of languages installed, and then click on Show the Language bar to bring it up. Once the language bar is up, click on it to bring up a list of languages installed, and select Simplified Chinese (PRC) by clicking on it. The Chinese language bar will come up.  By default, the toggle button for switching between simplified and traditional does not appear on the language bar for Simplified Chinese in Windows XP. To enable it, click on the select button (the bottom part of at the right side of the language bar) for additional user selectable settings.  Move the mouse to the option Charset to highlight it, and then click to select it. Now the option menu contains a button for toggling between simplified and traditional characters. Step 10. This and the following 3 steps explain how to install Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a for traditional Chinese. After you have clicked on the Add... button under Installed services as mentioned in Step 5, you’ll get the Add Input Language dialogue box. Choose Chinese (Taiwan) from the drop-down list under Input Language, check the Keyboard Layout / IME button, and then pick Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a. Click OK.  Step 11. You are back to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Note that under Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a is now listed. Click Apply and then OK. Step 12. After you have installed Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a, if you want to fine tune its properties, first select Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a under Installed services in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Then click on Properties to bring up the Properties dialog box for Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a.  * Note - It is strongly recommended that the default options be left in place especially if you’re inexperienced user. Step 13. That would be all. You are now ready to both read and write Chinese in your documents. You will see near the upper right hand corner of the Windows desktop the Language bar button, which allows users to change the input language. By left clicking on it you can bring up the language choices available and then pick one by selecting and clicking the desired language.  Note that within the same document you can change the input language by using the Language bar. You can produce a document with a mixture of different languages, just like with standard Latin languages. |
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