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CTRL-Space always toggles Chinese IME (Windows 7)

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate (w/ SP1), and have multiple UI languages installed - mainly for screenshots etc. Among them are Chinese (traditional) and Chinese (Simplified), which insist on hooking the CTRL+Space key even though I have disabled /…
peterchen
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How to type pinyin text with tone marks in Windows?

How do I type Chinese pinyin text with the tone marks into any application in Windows? I am aware of the Chinese IME in Windows, which converts pinyin text I type into the Chinese stroked characters. This is not what I want. I want to type and view…
Ashwin Nanjappa
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How can I use the Chinese IME with a Dvorak layout?

I use a Dvorak keyboard layout, controlled through the language bar "United States-Dvorak". I'm trying to use the Chinese IME (Simplified, Pinyin), but whenever I switch to that mode, the keys go back to QWERTY, so I can't type... Note: The OS is…
Sam Harwell
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Visual Studio - Search through code for Chinese text

I am trying to figure out if it's possible to search through code and stop at lines that contain Chinese characters?
BlaBlaBla
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How to disable Ctrl-Space selecting chinese keyboard on windows 7?

I would like to use both chinese keyboard and eclipse ctrl-space for suggestions popup. Since I use chinese very rare, I would like just to disable ctrl-space selecting this language. I have removed this combination from windows' chinese keyboard…
Dims
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fixing mis-encoded Chinese in file names

I'm saddled with a bunch of files whose names are garbled beyond recognition. Even though I more or less know what those names originally contained, fixing them by hand would involve a lot of hassle, so I'm looking for a way to do that…
wildekat
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What is this mix of Chinese/Arabic/Korean/Japanese user owning a process listening on port 139?

While using an open port checking tool (Technicians toolbox v1.1.0) I found a strange user name listening on port 139 hiding in PID 4 with a mix of Chinese and other Unicode characters as the user name: There is no command line or creation date or…
Joe Brown
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How can I find out the encoding of this corrupted Chinese text, which an online tool fixes correctly?

I have a text in Simplified Chinese, which, when read as UTF-8 begins with ´ÓºÜ¾ÃÒÔÇ°¿ªÊ¼, which the online tool from MandarinTools (first search result for Repair Corrupted Chinese Email) fixes to the correct 从很久以前开始, but it's not clear how it…
Johannes Riecken
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How can I fully uninstall the Sogou Chinese IME from Windows?

Sogou is a Chinese Input Method Editor that's very popular in Mainland China. There's a Wikipedia page about it. And here's its official homepage (Chinese only). I was persuaded to install it by reading some sites and talking to some Chinese who…
hippietrail
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Windows 7 Home Premium - Unable to View Chinese Characters Properly

Is there a proper and permanent fix that will restore the display of Chinese Characters on a Windows 7 Home Premium Laptop computer? This problem has been occurring frequently now and a simple reboot no longer does the trick. The square boxes viewed…
David
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Can't see the Chinese characters in VIM

I find that when I type Chinese characters (encoded with UTF-8) into VIM, I cannot see them at all while they do exist there. I can copy and paste them into other text editors and it seems everything is fine. How can I fix this problem?
SpawnST
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How can I “reset” or “restart” the Windows 10 Simplified Chinese IME when the 英/中 stops responding?

In Windows 10's Chinese IMEs there is a clickable icon in the lower right of the screen between the touch keyboard icon and the keyboard layout icon that displays 英 when you're in English input mode and 中 when you're in Chinese input mode. To…
hippietrail
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Windows 10 Chinese (Traditional) language option differences?

When I try to add Traditional Chinese language to Windows 10, I have 3 choices: Hong Kong SAR Macau Taiwan What are the differences with these options? How do I choose one over the other?
some user
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How to get CJK Unicode characters from a PDF that uses supplementary private use characters?

I have several PDF documents (such as this one) that appear to be written using standard Chinese ideograms, but when I extract the text, it turns out that it's encoded using characters from the Unicode supplemental private use areas. Is there any…
Ben
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Copying Chinese Characters from PDF

I am on a Windows 7 laptop, which I believe comes preinstalled with all the language packs. I can see Chinese characters with no issues and normally can copy them fine. (From browser to Microsoft Office works great). I have many PDFs with Chinese…
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