Pinyin Joe MS Windows 7 and Vista Chinese Language Features, Setup Help. A Quick Start Guide to Chinese Language Features in Western Versions of Windows 7 and Vista. On this page Character Display    IMEs     Fonts. Language Packs. Other Features. Setup pages 1. Setup    2. Pinyin for Traditional Chinese    3. Preferences    4. Help Files. 5. Zhuyin Setup    6. Chinese Fonts    7. Chinese Language Packs. 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. I also have a Frequently Asked Questions section that covers common issues with Windows and Office, and Ive even written a short piece on the history, politics and proper use of Pinyin. Click each image above to see the U. This article contains instructions on how to add language support, add keyboards or IMEs, and change system locale in Windows XP, Server 2003. S. prices on Amazon. All versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista are eligible for upgrade,but you should download the free Windows Vista Upgrade Advisoror the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor 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. ZuHiR1nE/Tl-aI0qpAzI/AAAAAAAAAms/BW3RlX5L8DA/s800/rupeesymbolsteps2.jpg' alt='Asian Language For Windows Xp' title='Asian Language For Windows Xp' />You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network. Enabling East Asian Languages in Microsoft Windows XP. Its easy to enable East Asian language display in Windows XP. This is required to view most Web pages and. 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 BusinessProfessonal installations to remove language features. I think there was also a version of Vista called Home Basic, but Ive never seen it so I cant 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. 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 enable East Asian languages 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 Explorers 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 Microsofts version of GB encoding. The Chinese Traditional, TaiwanHKMacau 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 2. XP, Vista and Windows 7 with even more. The mainland MSPY 2. Sogou like Microsoft Pinyin Simple. Fast, while the Taiwan Office 2. 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 1. Adding Simplified Chinese Pinyin input. Adding Traditional Chinese Pinyin input 3. Adjusting the Language Bar and shortcuts. Learning to use the Microsoft Pinyin IMEs. Windows 7 or Vista Zhuyin Bopomofo Setup Adding the Zhuyin IME as your Traditional Chinese input method, typing. Zhuyin phonetic symbols, and using Zhuyin ruby text above hanzi. Chinese input method updates for Windows 7, Vista and XP Downloading and installing the mainlandSingapore MSPY 2. Downloading and installting the TaiwanHKMacau Office 2. Pinyin Macros, plus more IMEs, fonts and apps Pinyin tone mark macro for Word and ExcelWubi input method Wubi Zixing for WindowsA survey of free and commercial Chinese fonts and applications. 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An introduction to Chinese language features in Windows 7 and Vista, with basic setup information to help you get started, including pinyin IME, fonts, Language Packs. Details of large, multiscript Windows fonts that include Unicode character ranges and that can be used to display Web pages containing many languages, scripts and. Chrono Trigger Psx Portugues. Chinese Fonts in Windows 7. Windows 7 and Vista include the following Chinese fonts. I have a page full of actual examples of Windows 7 and Vista Chinese fonts 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 verticalrotated versions. Supported by Chinese PRC keyboards, including MSPY. DFKai SBFang. SongGB2. Kai. Ti. Microsoft Jheng. Hei. Microsoft Ya. Hei. Ming. Li. UMing. Li. U Ext. BMing. Li. UHKSCSing. Li. UHKSCS Ext. BNSimsun. PMing. Li. UPMing. Li. U Ext. BSim. Hei. SimsunSimsun Ext. BSupported by Chinese Taiwan keyboards, including MSNP DFKai SBMicrosoft Jheng. Hei. Ming. Li. UMing. Li. U Ext. BPMing. Li. UPMing. Li. U Ext. BHKSCS fonts include Hong Kong Cantonese characters. PMing. Li. U 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 Chinese fonts included with Windows 7 and Vista. Chinese fonts included with Windows XP See also my survey of additional free and commercial third party Chinese fonts. 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. 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 Chinese applications do not require Language Packs 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 and Vista Chinese Language Packs. Windows XP Chinese MUI Packs. Windows 7 Regional Wallpaper Scenic Desktop Pictures from China and Other Asian Countries. OK, so this isnt exactly a language feature per se, but Windows 7 includes some very nice desktop backgrounds, and they seem to be different across regions. Ive collected the pictures for Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and India and posted them to this wallpaper download page. Large, multi script Unicode fonts for Windows computers. The number of Windows True. Type and Open. Type fonts that support Unicode is slowly increasing. One of the first was Lucida Sans Unicode from Bigelow Holmes, supplied with a pre release SDK for Microsoft Windows NT 3. March 1. 99. 3. Bitstream also had an experimental Unicode font, Cyber. Bit, freely available from Netscape for several years. The core fonts Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for Windows platforms were converted to Unicode even before Microsoft changed to the 1. WGL4 character set 6. ANSI character set 2. Many of Microsofts operating systems and applications come with additional Unicode fonts, and Office 2. Arial Unicode MS, which includes all of the characters in version 2. Unicode standard. There is also a large shareware Unicode fonts, Code. You need Unicode fonts to display many of the characters for which there are HTML 4. Unicode test pages. With the latest core fonts for Windows, you can add a suitable keyboard layout from the Language tab in the Keyboard section of Control Panel, and then select a layout from the icon tray in the taskbar and start typing in a different language without needing to change fonts You can find out if your Windows fonts support Unicode by using the extensions that Microsoft supplies for the Properties tab that is available when a True. Type. TTF font file is right clicked in Windows Explorer. Amongst other things, these extensions provide statistics on the number of glyphs and on the Ranges and Code Pages that are supported. The extensions are available from http www. The Fonts and products page on Microsofts Web site provides access to information about many fonts, including where to obtain them, and also provides lists of fonts that are supplied with many products. The following list of large Unicode fonts is probably not comprehensive, it is just the ones that I have acquired with various operating systems and applications, or found while learning about Unicode from the Web. It does not include Unicode fonts from commercial suppliers. Not all of the characters in a given range will always be present in a font you can use a utility such as Babel Map to see exactly which characters are included. Large, multi script fonts more than WGL4Ab. Roman. Serif 1. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 1. Latin Extended B 2. IPA Extensions 9. Spacing Modifier Letters 4. Combining Diacritical Marks 6. Greek and Coptic 2. Phonetic Extensions 6. Phonetic Extensions Supplement 1. Latin Extended Additional 2. Greek Extended 4 General Punctuation 7. Superscripts and Subscripts 1. Currency Symbols 2 Letterlike Symbols 2 Mathematical Operators 2 Miscellaneous Technical 2 Latin Extended C 1. Alphabetic Presentation Forms 7Open. Type layout tables   Latin. Family   Serif. Styles   Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. Availability   Free download from languagegeek. Font Downloads. ALPHABETUM Unicode 4. Produced by Juan Jos Marcos for classical and mediaeval Latin, classical Greek, Coptic, Old and Middle English, and Sanskrit, but also includes characters for most Latin based European languages and Esperanto. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 1. Latin Extended B 1. IPA Extensions 9. Spacing Modifier Letters 6. Combining Diacritical Marks 1. Greek 1. 31 Cyrillic 2. Hebrew 8. 2 Devanagari 1. Bengali 8. 7 Georgian 1 Ogham 2. Runic 8. 1 Phonetic Extensions 2. Phonetic Extensions Supplement 1 Latin Extended Additional 1. Greek Extended 2. General Punctuation 5. Superscripts and Subscripts 2. Currency Symbols 5 Letterlike Symbols 1. Number Forms 3. 6 Arrows 9 Mathematical Operators 2. Miscellaneous Technical 2. Geometric Shapes 5 Miscellaneous Symbols 3. Dingbats 5 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A 5 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols B 1 Glagolitic 9. Coptic 1. 14 Supplemental Punctuation 2. CJK Symbols and Punctuation 1. Hiragana 9. 0 Katakana 9. Bopomofo 3. 7 Alphabetic Presentation Forms 5. Specials 1 Linear B Syllabary 8. Linear B Ideograms 1. Aegean Numbers 5. Ancient Greek Numbers 7. Old Italic 3. 5 Gothic 2. Ugaritic 3. 1 Old Persian 5. Cypriot Syllabary 5. Phoenician 2. 7 Kharoshthi 6. Ancient Greek Musical Notation 7. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 2Family   Serif. Styles   Regular. Availability   Contact details and free demo version from ALPHABETUM UNICODE. Font for ancient scripts, cost 1. Andika Basic 7. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 9. Latin Extended B 8. IPA Extensions 2. Spacing Modifier Letters 1. Combining Diacritical Marks 2. Greek 2 Latin Extended Additional 2. General Punctuation 1. Currency Symbols 1 Letterlike Symbols 2 Mathematical Operators 1. Geometric Shapes 2 Latin Extended C 3 Latin Extended D 4 Alphabetic Presentation Forms 2Open. Type layout tables   Cyrillic, Latin. Family   Sans serif. Styles   Regular. Availability   Free download from Andika Font. Andron Scriptor Web 1. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 7. Latin Extended B 4. IPA Extensions 2. Spacing Modifier Letters 1. Combining Diacritical Marks 4. Greek 5 Cyrillic 1 Georgian 1 Runic 2 Phonetic Extensions 1. Latin Extended Additional 8. General Punctuation 5. Superscripts and Subscripts 2. Currency Symbols 3 Letterlike Symbols 9 Number Forms 5 Arrows 6 Mathematical Operators 2. Miscellaneous Technical 4 Enclosed Alphanumerics 3. Geometric Shapes 1. Miscellaneous Symbols 4 Dingbats 4 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A 4 Supplemental Mathematical Operators 1 Latin Extended C 2 Supplemental Punctuation 7 Alphabetic Presentation Forms 7Family   Serif. Styles   Regular. Availability   Free download from Medieval Unicode Font Initiative. Arev Sans 2. 83. Release 0. Based on Bitstream Vera Sans. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 1. Latin Extended B 2. IPA Extensions 9. Spacing Modifier Letters 6. Combining Diacritical Marks 7. Greek 1. 27 Cyrillic 2. Cyrillic Supplement 2. Latin Extended Additional 2. Greek Extended 2. General Punctuation 8. Superscripts and Subscripts 3. Currency Symbols 2. Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 3. Letterlike Symbols 6. Number Forms 5. 0 Arrows 1. Mathematical Operators 2. Miscellaneous Technical 8 Control Pictures 1 Block Elements 3. Geometric Shapes 1 Miscellaneous Symbols 1. Dingbats 1. 73 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A 6 Supplemental Arrows A 1. Alphabetic Presentation Forms 7 Specials 1Open. Type layout tables   Default, Latin. Family   Sans serif. Styles   Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique. Availability   Free download from Arev Fonts. Arial 2. 79. 2 characters 3. Ranges   Basic Latin 9. Latin 1 Supplement 9. Latin Extended A 1. Latin Extended B 2. IPA Extensions 9. Spacing Modifier Letters 8. Combining Diacritical Marks 1. Greek 1. 27 Cyrillic 2. Cyrillic Supplement 2. Hebrew 8. 7 Arabic 2. Arabic Supplement 3. Phonetic Extensions 1. Phonetic Extensions Supplement 6. Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement 1. Latin Extended Additional 2. Greek Extended 2. General Punctuation 5. Superscripts and Subscripts 6 Currency Symbols 2. Letterlike Symbols 9 Number Forms 7 Arrows 7 Mathematical Operators 1. Miscellaneous Technical 4 Box Drawing 4.