Chinese YiTien keyboard layout seems to be taken out from Lion. If not, where is it?

I have the same issue. I first notice the change when I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3.x and noticed I no longer have YiTien IME, and was hoping they didn't roll that into the new OS X. Oh well I guess I have to wait to find out how to get it back

jiming wrote:

I am used to type Chinese characters using the YiTien keyboard layout under SnowLeopard, but after I upgraded to Lion, the layout is no longer available. There is only layout option left for Zuyin input.

Here is some info on changes in Lion:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/osx7.html

Perhaps there are other IM's that have what you want:

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

Wait so.. apple just totally diregard Yitian IME ? i been using that mapping for alsmot 10 years. is there anyway to get it back? or at least report to apple to bring in it back? if that's the case i rather stay with lepord so i can actully get some work done.. anybody can show me the way?

YHLIN wrote:

report to apple to bring in it back?

You can tell them via feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

but you are better off trying to find another IM that does what you want or staying with 10.6.

This is absolutely absurd!

It's like saying I've been using QWERTY all my life, and now I have to learn how to use dvroak after a software upgrade because someone decided it was not important to include qwerty in the update.

I don't even know how to type in dvorak!!!

And I don't know how to input Chinese in any other way beside YiTian.

Telling me to go learn another input method is like me telling somone to learn to use dvorak because qwerty stoped working.

David510C wrote:

And I don't know how to input Chinese in any other way beside YiTian.

Could you answer a couple questions for me? Is the YiTian IM just a different allocation of standard bopomofo symbols among the keys? Or does it use some different symbols? Or does it have different mappings between the sequences of symbols and the hanzi? (I've have Googled but not found any good info on this so far).

Yes. YiTian is a keyboard layout to input Chinese. You're right in saying "it's a different allocation of standard bopomofo symbols among the keys."

For someone like me, who has learned bopomofo phanetically as a kid, but grew up in the US learning how to type using the QWERTY keyborrd. It makes a lot of sense for me to use YiTian as an input method.

In standard bobomofo layout, ㄅ(bo), ㄆ(po), ㄇ (mo), ㄈ(fo) are 1, Q, A, Z keys respectively. This is like saying you'd have use 1, Q, A, Z key to type ABCD, and 2, W, S, X keys to type EFGH, etc.

It makes no sense. Since we all grew up learning the QWERTY keyboard layout. You wouldn't want to relearn how to type if keys are layed out as ABCD, EFGH, IJK...

What makes YiTien layout work is that B key = Bo, P key = Po, M key = Mo, and F key = Fo. If you already know how to type QWERTY, you can pick up YiTian in no time.

That is why it is absurd that YiTian layout completly dissapeared from 10.7. How else am I suppose to type? I don't want to learn a new keyboard layout all over again if I can avoid it. If I got that time, I'd go learn a new music instrument or something.

jiming wrote:

It is, after all, just a different keyboard mapping for the ZhuYin input

I'm wondering whether it might be just a question of putting a new keyboard layout file into the IM package to get YiTian back....

Having same problem here, it's sad, there is no solution to this problem yet, I might need go back to snow leopard just for this reason.

found a working solution... download "Yahoo keykey" , it works for me

http://tw.media.yahoo.com/keykey/

I tried DerYi, don't waste your time, it doesn't work.

The keyboard layout is the same as this one

(source: http://www.e-chinese.org/pix/BPMF_Keyboard.gif)

Just wonder that it's possible to add a new CIN file to solve it....

The standard keyboard layout http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Keyboard_layout_Zhuyin.png

It's so simple, but Apple failed to make it and corrupts it AGAIN!