Comments on: A New Best Chinese IME?

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:44:40 +0000

rip off of Sogou, a software that was available FIRST! and google pinyin does not do a good job of translating the traditional characters, its only good for simplified.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:30:49 +0000

Seems to me anyone having trouble with the Microsoft IME doesn’t have it set up right… I’ve used it for a long while and love it, and a week using the Google knock off of Sogou hasn’t changed my mind!

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:26:30 +0000

I think the Sohu pinyin IME is better, which is the one that Google copied

http://www.sogou.com/pinyin/

By: thealienresident

thealienresident — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:13:56 +0000

One thing I discovered with the Google IME is that when writing with traditional characters like they do in Taiwan, some characters that the Taiwanese use are actually simplified characters. Thus, it becomes impossible to write certain characters with this IME.

For example, the word 台灣 (which means Taiwan) is commonly used in Taiwan. But this cannot be written with the Google IME, because it consists of a simplified character (台) and a traditional character (灣). Instead you have to write 臺灣, which the Taiwanese hardly ever use. This is the same with many other words involving the character 台.

With the Microsoft IME, this was never a problem.

By: luis

luis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:52:15 +0000

I read it and i did it, what i’m still bitching about is that all the software is still in Simplified chinese…
it’s a really nice tool!!! But unfortunately it has no english or traditional chinese interface!!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:21:18 +0000

Luis, it looks like you missed reading part of the post. See the bottom paragraph titled, “Setting Google Pinyin to output traditional Chinese”.

By: luis

luis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:53:32 +0000

I have a couple of critics to make to this new IME, firt of all, it’s doesn’t have english, second, it’s fucking simplified chinese (i would say it looks ugly and weird for me, i’ve been studying tradicional chinese and i will keep doing so)…
That’s all, after a couple of tests i could work it well with my portuguese writing on US keyboard all right.
Hope google makes it if not in english, atleast in tradicional (real) chinese…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:31:38 +0000

For those English-speaking students of Chinese who are interested in using this tool, I have put together the following translation of the main setup options. Hope I wasn't too far off on anything.

By: A Stay in China » Entering Chinese

A Stay in China » Entering Chinese — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:20:42 +0000

[...] I was just reading on another blog about a new IME (input method editor) from Google, that is supposed to be much better at entering Chinese than the built in one from Microsoft. Blog here: http://toshuo.com/2007/a-new-best-chinese-ime/ [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:18:09 +0000

Go to the language and regional settings in the control panel and set English to be your default input method. Then, when you want to switch to Chinese, you can hit ctrl-shift to cycle through your language options. If the Google pinyin IME is already active, you can just tap the left shift key to switch the Chinese input on and off. That’s faster than clicking the 中.