Chinese Input
 

I was wondering if someone out there could help me install chinese input on my TP2...the things ive seen out there are touchpal but not sure if this is for a touch/keyboard combo......i am completely new at doing things to my phone so please be patient and help....thank you



****UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE****

Chinese inputs will not work on US carriers as of yet, I did go back to BeiJing and using the installed .cabs below was able to SMS in chinese text and recieve text too. You can read all the chinese scripts you want with the .cabs below but can not type chinese though US carriers..ie- sprint, att, verizon, etc

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If displaying chinese characters is your only need, then install "sunglobe.cab"
If you want chinese input, install BOTH "PlumSIP Pro VGA V6.1.0008.cab" and "uhei00m-gray.cab"
soft reset your device after installing.
hope it helps.

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Thanx will try and let you know if i get it to work. Again thanx for helping me out, im a newb boob to playing with with phones.

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Questions, why do you need "uhei00m-gray.cab"?
and can anyone get chinese woking with vzw's sms?

Thanks

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ok...got it all installed on phone...now how to use it when writing an email??

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"sunglobe.cab" and "uhei00m-gray.cab" are both fonts.
"PlumSIP Pro VGA V6.1.0008.cab" is the input.
From testing, either font will work.

if you installed correctly, you should have a SIP (keyboard) that's able to write chinese.
At your email composing page, you should see a clover looking icon near the bottom of your screen. Click on it and you will see a pinyin keypad appear.

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if you are on Sprint, uheim00m cab works the best. No conflicts on texting to other providers. I had tried CE-Star and Sunglobe, I couldnt text to Verizon and T-mobile users.

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Ok...i get it to work...only poblem is i have to do it with the touch screen...anyway to actually change it to the keyboard??

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also....i just emailed thru hotmail to my wife but when she get it on her end it is all question marks????? It looks fine go out but not when it is received

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Could someone upload the original WinCE.NLS file off their TP2? I need it because I had replaced mine with one that was back dated to an old way I use to read chinese on my TP2 but it seems that is no longer necessary and I do not want to hard reset just for that one file. Thank you.

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Thanks danny6514! Now I can send and receive emails in Chinese.


It works fine for me. Does your wife's computer have the right Chinese font installed?

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You can try this website. http://www.careace.net/2009/02/09/ch...samsung-omnia/

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Well i had CE on there as well....so after i uninstalled that...everything works just fine....thank you everyone for the help.

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the problem should be on her end...
she needs to set her browser to read the characters.
firefox: view->character encoding->auto detect and choosing the appropriate one. its normally either simplified or traditional chinese
IE: right click anywhere -> Encoding -> Choose the appropriate one. If you're not sure, doesn't hurt to guess and check. (just remember what it was before)

Oh...now I see it, problem solved.

attached.
wince.nls is a system protected file, so you won't see it unless you set your system to display protected system file.

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Anyone know how to get the Chinese keyboard from being the default softkeyboard after every softrest? I like the ability to use Chinese, but most of the time I need the "full qwerty softkeyboard for English.

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Settings > Personal > Input.
There, choose the keyboard you want as default.
Soft reset.
I'm not sure if it'll work 100%, give it a try

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Thanks, but that didn't work. It's not the end of the world though, because once I select the full qwerty keyboard it does stays until my next soft resent. But having to change my keyboard once every reset is well worth having the ability to send and receive sms and email in Chinese. :smile:

But if anyone else knows how to make the full qwerty keyboard the default keyboard after a soft resent please tell me. Thanks!

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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008

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I figured out a different more simple solution on my own, probably my fault for not thinking of this earlier. I looked in the windows/startup folder, and there was a shortcut to "plumstart6", I just deleted the shortcut and now the full qwerty keyboard shows up by default again, but I can still select/use the pinyin keyboard if I want.

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I tried that before, but the problem is that you would not be able to use hard keyboard to input Chinese after you delete the startup file.

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I installed uheim00m cab on my touch pro. as far as reading and typing in chinese are fine..but it will not let me send chinese sms. it gives me ——— instand of chinese words.
any idea? I am on sprint.

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so you guys can text with Chinese on sprint network? I installed the famous yahei 12m fonts so I can view chinese characters fine. and I am using the PlumSIP Pro VGA V6.1.0008 for input. But sprint network just could not recognize what I send by text message.I just installed the uhei00m-gray font posted here, didn't help.

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How did you get the hard keyboard to input Chinese? Even with that startup file intact, when I type on the hard keyboard it just writes English.

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I was able to send and receive emails in Chinese. SMS doesn't seem to work for me either, must be a carrier thing, I also have Sprint.

Also, the HTC music player (the one on the touchflo3d slide bar) now recognizes Chinese characters!

(I installed the 3 posted files)

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I am on VZW. I know intercarrier will not work wahtsoever. But it suppose to work within carrier. I think chinese sms works on ATT, but I can not get it work in VZW

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sorry I meant you can text in English with the uheim00m cab. you cant even text in English to a different carrier if you installed other chinese font .

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just choose menu, overall setting, then you get the screen where you can choose skins etc, check the box" use hard keyboard" and then soft reset. but you have to have the startup file in windows/startup.

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If anyone is interested, I found a program that gives you simultaneous Chinese/Japanese/Korean font and input support. It's not cheap, but there is a free trial:
Effy-CJK 4.0 (Chinese/Japanese/Korean/English) Fonts included 4.0
(link has some info about the program and a download link)
I'm trying it right now, now all my Chinese/Japanese/Korean mp3s titles etc. are displaying correctly in the HTC music player (touchflo3d interface) and in windows media player and the file explorer.

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Interesting thing going on.....I can email myself here in the states from my phone and when i check my hotmail (from laptop) the chinese characters are displayed....when i email my wife using the phone it only shows ??...but when i use MSN on my phone she can read the characters...weird....and just so you know, it is not my wifes computer not being able to display...she lives in beijing and is Chinese, so her computer OBVIOUSLY displays chinese correctly...thinking it might have something to do with going thru so many places, but why would MSN work and not the hotmail????

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did she try changing character encoding on her hotmail page?

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danny....if i send from my laptop..no problem...its just with the phone she can not read the pinyin on hotmail

Illl send her a message from my phone to her hotmail...no read
if i send it from my laptop....she can read

BUT...if i send myself a message to hotmail....I can read

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Like I said, the problem lies on her end. The fact you're able to read messages sent from your cellphone proves that there is nothing wrong with the cabs. The reason why she can read messages sent from your laptop and not from your cellphone is because of font encoding problems. Even if she has a chinese operating system, she will still have to adjust her character encoding settings. I personally own a chinese operating system too, and occasionally I would run into websites filled with "??????" Changing the encoding normally solves the problem.

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My guess is she uses different style fonts.

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Huangfch,

I am new to this phone, so please forgive me if I am a bit slow.

I am not sure I understand your instruction. Could give a step by step instruction? For setting, I went to the start manual and chose "setting", then I hit "all settings" at the lower left corner. Then what?

Thank you!

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Ahhhh....ok I will look into that

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does any of the above cabs allow pinyin? i only know how to pinyin

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Yo kid....it does a great job for pinyin

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what do you use for sipchange?
anyway to get this to do traditional chinese?

damn, too bad i can't really ready chinese. so i dunno what the options on there represent... anyone care to translate? also does this cab work for vga devices?

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1.hit the butterfly in middle of screen to bring up the keypad like a telephone...
2.hit the bottom tab next to the #7
3. got to 2nd option level
4.put a check in the box with 4 chinese characters and (3characters in parenthases)
5.push ok
6.restart phone

now you can toggle between 中文 and 英文

to undo everything...uncheck that box and restart phone

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thanks, not sure if i did it right... but i don't see english menus

btw anyway to get traditional chinese?