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    Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

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    07-Sep-2009 05:32:12#1 Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

    I never learned to touchtype on qwerty and earlier this year I switched to colemak and am now touchtyping at about 75 wpm. I am in my third semester of Chinese in college and so occasionally have to type in Chinese. I am on Windows so I can easily use the built in language tools. My only problem is that it seems that I can only use qwerty. This makes typing in Chinese painful and I have to look at my keys going very slow. I am already not very good at Chinese, I don't need my keyboard making it worse. Thanks for your help.
    Edit: I am using Windows 7.

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    21-Oct-2009 06:44:50#2 Re: Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

    Since no one has responded I have found a less than ideal solution. Instead of installing colemak if I just use the .exe provided by Ryan Heise both english and chinese are converted to colemak.

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    02-Dec-2009 07:20:05#3 Re: Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

    Sorry about this tread. I just found out about changing the registry to remap the keys and that there were already very convenient ways to do that.
    See the following:
    https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=5820#p5820
    https://colemak.com/Registry_remapping

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    22-Jun-2015 01:40:06#4 Re: Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

    I got the same problem. I am now studying Chinese for 3 years

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    22-Jun-2015 06:11:48#5 Re: Help typing in Chinese with Colemak

    You could try using PKL which converts your input before sending it on to the system. That should work with the language tools although I haven't tried it (it's similar to "Ryan Heise's .exe" mentioned above, but with a menu and some nice tricks added).

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