Chinese Fonts for the Computer??

http://pinyin.sogou.com/

Thanks. works well

joannah, this seems to be the best tool for that:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/pinyinput-install.zip

I've been trying to work out how to enter letters with the pinyin tones in windows XP. Anyone know?

thanks bazza. very useful.

For Chinese Fonts:

I have been using them since I started typing Chinese in 2001. The easiest way to find fonts, and free, is to search for "fonts" by the Chinese word for fonts rather than English:

First, "fonts" in Chinese is: 字体 (zìtǐ lit: character-body)

Then go to Google and type:

"字体" (or "中文字体" to be more exact) and pretty much any of the results have fonts.

(another tip is to do an image search for ""字体" at images.google.com... when you see the sample image of a font you like, click it, then go to the containing page of that image, and download the font)

TT (Tencent Traveler) is nice Chinese browser as well.

http://im.qq.com/tt/

I installed the QQ IME. Interestingly it looks almost the same as the google IME http://www.google.com/support/pinyin/

Everyone should give this QQ IME a try, it's easily the best one I've tried. You can set your own shortcut for switching between simplified and traditional, it even has customizable skins.

Ok, I think I have a new favourite. :)

Just found a QQ one, gonna give it a try. :)

http://im.qq.com/qqpinyin/index.shtml

Don't think there is a English version, no. You'll need to set your non-unicode language to Chinese for it to work probably I think.

@bazza

this unispim site...is there an english version? or, actually, just how do I get it to download and work without killing my comp/ myself?

@clarsen

I did a search for Google chinese fonts and I don't think I found what you found. what exactly was it called? it sounds really nice!

also, sometimes it seems like I have trouble getting anyting other than simsun (I think I have a few fonts...I have Windows Vista) I have to work with my input thingy...is there a reason for this?

I promise I am not as computer illiterate as I sound...I just have issues with certain things like this!

I got the GOOGLE one... it's awesome and easy to use and it's in English. Thanks for the help with the fonts... now I got a bunch of good ones... BAZZA it makes your 500 common words look nice.

Personally I think this one is the best: http://www.unispim.com/

bennyboyk, I'm not sure the best software for a PC, but if you or anyone has a Mac, QIM is by far the best software I've found. It's fast and super intuitive.... QIM for Mac

i heard that if you install chinese language on your pc, if you go on Word, you will have nice fonts. I tried it out but the chinese had to be uininstalled and I kept the fonts

While we're on this, what's the best software to use to type pinyin into Chinese characters?

That's the one: www.font.com.cn

Everytime someone asks this I forget the url.