04-26-2009, 07:29 PM

Hello,

I have a problem with Leopard's traditional Chinese input method. When I switch to pinyin input, my keyboard layout becomes messed up. I type on a standard US keyboard (QWERTY layout) which works fine when I use the Hanin input, but when I switch to pinyin, the layout becomes QWERTZ. That sucks because I constantly mix up the Y and Z keys and I can't get used to type Z where Y is supposed to be. On top of that, the punctuation marks like colon, semicolon, ditto marks etc. are someplace I can't find them.

Okay, I could just use the Hanin method to type Chinese since the layout is correct there but Hanin forces me to input the tone mark after every single character I type and that slows me down thoroughly, especially since I don't know the tone mark for every single character I want and I have to try and find it then which is extremely annoying.

So does anyone know where I can change the keyboard layout of the pinyin input back to standard QWERTY? I searched the preference pane but unlike Kotoeri (Apple's Japanese IME) it hasn't such an option. The help menu also doesn't seem to have an item on that matter.

Thank you in advance.

04-27-2009, 12:34 AM

Have you tried going into System Preference>International>Input Menu>Traditional Chinese and ensuring pinyin is selected and Hanin is not?

04-27-2009, 04:48 AM

Yeah, I tried. That doesn't change anything however. Pinyin's keyboard layout is still mixed up while Hanin's is not.