Problem writing pinyin - keyboard changing from different languages

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Problem writing pinyin - keyboard changing from different languages

Hi!

I use mac book pro with OS X with three input languages; English, Norwegian (native) and Chinese. Daily I write with all of them, and changing maybe more than hundred times a day. The physical mac book pro keyboard is American (which is okay).

When I write norwegian they keyboard changes, adding new letters like ØÆÅ and move around symbols/characters like ;:<>@()?+=&/ . This is not a problem as I remember the norwegian layout by years of writing.

BUT my problem is when changing to Chinese Pinyin input.

- If my previous input keyboard was Norwegian, I get Chinese pinyin writing based on Norwegian keyboard layout.

- If my previous input keyboard was USA, I get Chinese pinyin writing based on American keyboard layout.

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It´s frustrating that I never know where the questionmark an other symbol is hiding.

Q: Is there any soloution where I can ALWAYS write pinyin based on the American keyboard??

The two different pinyin simplified ("forenklet") keyboard (based on what previous keyboard used; Norwegian ("Norsk") or USA

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), keyboard input

Posted on Aug 28, 2013 6:19 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 28, 2013 6:55 PM in response to chrtho

I think the only way to get what you want is probably to use another IM, perhaps QIM would do the trick.

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

You might also want to ask in the Chinese Mac group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chinesemac

To ask Apple to add a preference setting for the keyboard layout, instead of having it follow the last one used (this was done for Japanese a few years ago), you can go to

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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