Ink - chinese character recognition?

I don't know the answer, but you could look it up yourself: I can't read chinese. You can access the Ink preference pane without tablet. Let me elaborate, what you could do is
* Change the language to chinese in the International preference pane.
* quit System Preferences
* open the Ink preference pane. Without a tablet it is a bit tricky. Navigate to /System/Library/Preference Panes/ and open Ink.prefPane. If this does not give you the Ink preferenc pane, navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ and open ink.menu. This will give you the Ink menu extra that, in turn will give you access to the Ink preference pane.
* Once there, the preference pane should be in chinese. The language tab should give you information on what language is recognized.
* Don't forget to revert to your original language by, again, going to the insternational preference pane...

Inkwell can probably not do it. According to http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/ it "also works with French and German", and that probably means that it doesn't work with anything else.

There recently was a discussion about Handwriting Recognition on the Chinese Mac mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chinese-mac/ . As far as I remember the outcome was that there currently is nothing available for MacOS X. You can search that URL for "handwriting" to read the details.

Ink can't do it. See this page:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/input_methods.html#PenPower

Here's a program for using the keyboard for Chinese:

http://www.unidocsys.com/products/PanALEX/

Kevin -- Have you actually used this? It has not been updated since 10.2 and I don't know if it still works. OS X includes tons of Chinese keyboard input stuff already.

Nope, never used it, but it was all I could find on inout of Chinese.

I wouldn't even know if it was working!