RE: Windows 2000 Chinese IME

[Chris Pratley]

I assume there is a typo below, and that you mean when you type “ma2”, you want only choices that are “ma2”, and not ma3”, “mashang”, etc.   When I use MS Pinyin 2.0 IME on Win2000, I get exactly 4 candidates when I input “ma2”: 麻 (U+9ebb) 吗 (U+5417) 蟆 (U+87c6) 蔴 (U+8534). Each of these is pronounced “ma2” as expected.   Can you clarify what steps you are taking to insert the characters? Are you typing only “ma” and leaving off the tone number?   Chris   -----Original Message----- From: 952470 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:48 AM To: Magda Danish (Unicode) Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Chinese IME Thank you for your tips concerning Chinese Unicode fonts. It works fine now. I have tried Windows 2000 Simplified Chinese IME together with the Pinyin input method. Due to the fact that I have to input a large number of single Chinese characters (not words) only I would prefer to input Pinyin together with tone numbers. E.g. Typing "ma2" into the IME I would like to choose its character only among characters representing "ma3",  not "ma2" or "mashang" etc. With Windows 2000 Pinyin IME it takes sometimes a very long time before finding the necessary character. Is there a solution to this problem ? Thank you Viktor Herzberg