Shanghaiist: Google Pinyin: Typing in Chinese has never been this much fun

小莎莎

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:33:25 +0800

hello!　I just recently downloaded the google pinyin IME and I really like it. I can't read chinese as fluently as I speak it, so going through the options and everything is a little difficult...have to get my mom to help ^^; but I am wondering if you or anyone else knows what the sun/moon icon is for? when I click it, it changes my typing font to the ｓｐａｃｅｄ　ｏｕｔ　ｗｏｒｄｉｎｇ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｔｈｉｓ, but sometimes the spaced out wording is toggled automatically, and it doesn't seem to depend on whether it's the moon or the sun showing up...??

军

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:36:33 +0800

I did not have very pleasant experience with google pinyin because it poped up all the time even in the middle of a game when I used keyboard so that there is a piece of screen that I could not see. I had to removed it.

gabyu

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:08:33 +0800

It does not only looks like the Sogu pinyin technlology, but it seems that Google China copied it ! "Google Inc. apologized Monday following complaints the U.S. search company's new Internet tool for inputting Chinese characters incorporated data from a Chinese rival."

Ken

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:22:02 +0800

Mac users should check out QIM, which is light years ahead of the input methods Apple has included. It's not free, but from now until April 15, it's on sale to celebrate the birth of the author's son. (Not affiliated with the author, just a fan of the software.)

Jeremy

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:48:41 +0800

Well, it is working for me now. I'm sorry rence, I have no explanation other than Google magic....

rence

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:51:06 +0800

i'm with you jeremy...the space bar is a must for me as it feels weird not hitting the space bar for every other character..i'm not a big fan yet, but if that can be fixed, I'm on board.

Jeremy

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:55:17 +0800

When I use Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, I can just hit the space bar if it has come up with the correct entry (that is, option #1 is what I want to write), but that didn't work for google's. Is this an option? Suggestions?

fiLi

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:07:47 +0800

Wonderful, a great find. Thanks for the info.

venture160

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:06:27 +0800

this is wicked awesome!!! better than anything that is out right now for PC, I doubt there will be a mac version though.

prettygood

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:06:13 +0800

Like you I only used google pinyin for a few minutes, but i like it already. However my chinese is in the early stages, so English help would save a lot of machine translating(through my firefox Hanzibar [realimaginary.com]) . It doesn't work in my skype chat, and that is sad. I will need two different pinyin editors going at the same time. No one said learning chinese would be easy.

no

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:05:24 +0800

Yea, and I bet google has some secret treaty with the Chinese government...