Comments on: Writing pinyin with tone marks (and other special characters) http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2010/05/10/writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks-and-other-special-characters/ Any language, any time, anywhere Mon, 21 May 2012 13:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Hans http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2010/05/10/writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks-and-other-special-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Hans Sat, 22 May 2010 15:48:47 +0000 http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/?p=956#comment-1120 I'm using Linux, so it might be of no use... But on both Czech and "US International" keyboard choices the combinations of Alt Gr+Shit+[7, 8, 9] pressed before the letter itself produces ùūú accents and there is directly a dead key next to backspace for adding 'ˇ': ǔ. However, " for ü is a dead key on itself, so I can't combine ü with additional accents (not that I write pinyin with tone marks often anyway). I’m using Linux, so it might be of no use… But on both Czech and “US International” keyboard choices the combinations of Alt Gr+Shit+[7, 8, 9] pressed before the letter itself produces ùūú accents and there is directly a dead key next to backspace for adding ‘ˇ’: ǔ. However, ” for ü is a dead key on itself, so I can’t combine ü with additional accents (not that I write pinyin with tone marks often anyway).

]]> By: Wendy http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2010/05/10/writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks-and-other-special-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Wendy Tue, 11 May 2010 02:19:24 +0000 http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/?p=956#comment-1114 Hi Hans, Thanks for reminding me about other languages' keyboard layouts! Completely slipped my mind to mention them. Of course this is another option, but I'm not sure which languages use all combinations of a, e, i, o, and u with macron, acute, caron, and grave (ā, á, ǎ, and à, respectively). Also, I already have to type using the Chinese IMEI, so adding another one where I don't know where the keys are seemed too much work. I used to live in Turkey and even going back to a boring English keyboard made it difficult to remember where all the special keys were. :) If you can recommend a language input option with all of those letters, please let me know and I'll try it! Hi Hans,

Thanks for reminding me about other languages’ keyboard layouts! Completely slipped my mind to mention them. Of course this is another option, but I’m not sure which languages use all combinations of a, e, i, o, and u with macron, acute, caron, and grave (ā, á, ǎ, and à, respectively). Also, I already have to type using the Chinese IMEI, so adding another one where I don’t know where the keys are seemed too much work. I used to live in Turkey and even going back to a boring English keyboard made it difficult to remember where all the special keys were. :)
If you can recommend a language input option with all of those letters, please let me know and I’ll try it!

]]> By: Hans http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2010/05/10/writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks-and-other-special-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Hans Mon, 10 May 2010 19:25:59 +0000 http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/?p=956#comment-1113 And we who live in European countries which managed to add to their writing system all kinds of funny žľuťoučký kůňíček-like letters long long time ago never had any trouble with this ;-) I even think there is an option for "western international" keyboard somewhere in operating system which has got dead keys. And we who live in European countries which managed to add to their writing system all kinds of funny žľuťoučký kůňíček-like letters long long time ago never had any trouble with this ;-) I even think there is an option for “western international” keyboard somewhere in operating system which has got dead keys.

]]>