Typing Chinese Windows Vista

Pinyin Joe Chinese fonts in Windows 7 and Vista. Many people arrive here looking for additional fonts, so Ill start by pointing you folks to another page, my Survey of Free and Commercial Third Party Fonts. However, Windows 7 and Vista already include the following long list of Chinese fonts, and a few more fonts were introduced in Windows 8 and 1. The highlighted fonts are the system defaults PMing. List, description and examples of the Chinese language fonts available in Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista. When youre sharing your screen for a business or school presentation, you dont want any notifications popping up, like a sext, a calendar notification for your. Step by step procedure with screenshots to install Windows 7 and Windows 8 from USB drive or pen drive. Typing Chinese Windows Vista' title='Typing Chinese Windows Vista' />Li. U for Traditional Chinese TaiwanHKMacau keyboards Sim. Sun for Simplified Chinese mainlandSingapore keyboards. This can be changed in the current document via your font menu, or permanently in the default settings for each application, however I dont recommend changing the overall default system font. IME CS MSPY and other Chinese, Simplified input methods for mainland and Singapore. THKM MS New Phonetic other Chinese, Traditional input for TaiwanHKMacau. Proportional vs. Chinese characters. More about this below. Apparently what Microsoft means when they say these fonts are supported by the ChinaSingapore IME is not full support but display support. Even if you set that IME to Traditional character mode, if you try to type in these fonts youll be bumped back into the default font usually Sim. Sun. So, you can really only select these fonts after youve typed the characters by going back to highlight them and choosing the font you want. Two more tips for you in many applications you can make other PRC fonts your default font instead of Sim. Sun, but you cannot do that with these Traditional fonts. Also, when using these fonts with the ChinaSingapore IME, if you copy your text into other applications or send to other people there may be some problems so please experiment a little first before relying on them. Minority Fonts. In your font menu you should also find Chinese minority. Yi Yi Baiti, Tibetan Microsoft Himalaya, Uighur Microsoft Uighur and Mongolian Mongolian Baiti. I am not planning to cover these in detail here. Default Chinese Fonts. When you select a Chinese input method and start typing, Windows 7s default fonts will be Songti Sim. Sum for Simplified characters and PMing. Li. U for Traditional. These are also the standard Chinese system fonts for filenames, menus and other UI text. Song is the standard Chinese printing typeface, named after the Song dynasty when it may have originated. The names of these particular fonts are confusing because two different vendors developed the Simplified and Traditional fonts for Microsoft. XinNew is proportional in one set but monospaced in the other. Proportional vs. Monospaced The default fonts, Sim. Sun and PMing. Li. U, are called proportional only because of the non Chinese glyphs contained in each font, like Latin letters and Japanese kana. Times and Arial are proportional English fonts you may be familiar with. A monospaced, or non proportional font, would be old versions of Courier, in which every letter and space take up the same amount of space from side to side just like the output of a typewriter. Remember those thingsSo Whats New Here Two new Chinese fonts were introduced with Vista, Microsoft Jheng. Hei and Microsoft Ya. Hei, developed by Hong Kongs Dynacomware and the PRCs Founder respectively. These take advantage of the latest Clear. Type display technology. Although the low resolution reproductions above may not do them justice, they both look great on paper. The other fonts, even if they are new to Vista, have been available separately in one form or another for quite some time. Some are True. Type most are bitmapped. Additional Fonts. There are many free and commercial third party fonts you can add to your system. Click here for my survey of more Chinese fonts. If you are working in education, I highly recommend the Dynafont True. Type 2. 8 package described on my survey page. I own it because it includes Pinyin and Zhuyin ruby fonts. Crash Bash Exe Pc. On my Zhuyin setup page I offer examples of those Dyna. Com. Ware Pinyin and Zhuyin ruby fonts. If you just want to display Pinyin with tone marks I have a free MS Word Pinyin macro for you. The macro page also explains which English fonts contain letters with Pinyin diacritics we need. See also my 3rd party Chinese applications page with links to cool stuff like free Pinyin with tone marks IMEs and more.