how can one email in chinese using an american keyboard?

[James]

do you know how one can email in chinese using an american keyboard? is
there a way to add a chinse font or somthing?

 

[James]

sorry mandarin chinese to be exact. ms word has chinese options but it calls
them "traditional and simplified" is this mandarin? this will work fine in
word but what about using aol as the email editor is there a way to write in
mandarin there too?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Mandarin is a spoken language. In the written language, unlike an alphabet
based language, Chinese characters have nothing to do with sounds. All
Chinese is written exactly the same regardless of whether the writer speaks
Mandarin, Cantonese, Fukenese, etc. All common Chinese characters can be
written in both Traditional (complex) or Simplified characters; and all
literate Chinese can write to each other even if they cannot understand each
other's spoken version of the language.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

sorry mandarin chinese to be exact. ms word has chinese options but it calls
them "traditional and simplified" is this mandarin? this will work fine in
word but what about using aol as the email editor is there a way to write in
mandarin there too?

 

[James]

Thank you for all the info. thats neat to know since i only know english. i
am trying to setup a freinds email so they can write in chinese to there
relatives. they use aol as their email. would it be best to create them a
windows user that is in chinese so that everything is in chinese and then
other people can use fast user switchng to go back to english? or is there a
better way to just make word and aol's email editor work in chinese?

Mandarin is a spoken language. In the written language, unlike an alphabet
based language, Chinese characters have nothing to do with sounds. All
Chinese is written exactly the same regardless of whether the writer speaks
Mandarin, Cantonese, Fukenese, etc. All common Chinese characters can be
written in both Traditional (complex) or Simplified characters; and all
literate Chinese can write to each other even if they cannot understand each
other's spoken version of the language.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

sorry mandarin chinese to be exact. ms word has chinese options but it calls
them "traditional and simplified" is this mandarin? this will work fine in
word but what about using aol as the email editor is there a way to

write

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. Hotmail supports Chinese, but I don't
know what it's like - maybe it just displays Chinese - see:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-3514_7-9973857-2.html?legacy=cnet&tag=subnav

I suspect that what you want is Input Method Editor. Never used it and it
sounds clunky, but typing Chinese is bound to be that way. Anyway, it's
been around for a long time so it probably works. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/IME_Paper.mspx

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP, BA Chinese

 

[James]

so both users have to have the IME installed?

I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. Hotmail supports Chinese, but I don't
know what it's like - maybe it just displays Chinese - see:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-3514_7-9973857-2.html?legacy=cnet&tag=subnav

I suspect that what you want is Input Method Editor. Never used it and it
sounds clunky, but typing Chinese is bound to be that way. Anyway, it's
been around for a long time so it probably works. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/IME_Paper.mspx

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP, BA Chinese

english. there can