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Google Pinyin for the HTC Hero

I got the Google Pinyin input working for my HTC Hero Android phone. It turned out to be quite simple. The only two things holding me back were (1) a bad install of Google Pinyin, and (2) lack of proper documentation for switching input methods. When I... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Thu, Aug 27 2009

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11 Feb 09		Mark’s New Pinyin Input Firefox Extension » Sinosplice My friend Mark has created a FireFox addon. It does one thing and it does it well: it converts onscreen text from numeral pinyin to pretty pinyin with tone marks. (It doesn’t convert characters to pinyin or any of that jazz.) I find this ver...
12 Apr 07		Google Sogou Pinyin is also pretty good » bokane After the whole kerfluffle where it turned out that Google copied all or some of its wordlist from Sogou’s Pinyin method, I decided to download the Sogou IME at work and give it a spin. Results: 听完了这个消息我便下载了搜狗的拼音输...

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