Chinese on the TH55

[the don]

Hi! I was wondering whats the best set up for studying Chinese on my Clie PDA. I want to keep my English localization but be able to view and write Chinese Traditional Characters. Furthermore, i would like to be able to not only have Chinese character recognition but also to be able to input with Hanyu Pinyin. A friend told me i should set it up with Pen Dragon and Go Go pen... Any other ideas?

[TH-er]

Hi! I was wondering whats the best set up for studying Chinese on my Clie PDA. I want to keep my English localization but be able to view and write Chinese Traditional Characters. Furthermore, i would like to be able to not only have Chinese character recognition but also to be able to input with Hanyu Pinyin. A friend told me i should set it up with Pen Dragon and Go Go pen... Any other ideas?

That software is called Han Dragon. I think it is widely used in Taiwan.
It support not only traditional Chinese but also simplified Chinese.
I cannot find any information about Han Dragon in English but there is one
in traditional Chinese.
http://www.pd.com.tw/index.jsp

Go Go pen is another software boundled with Han Dragon which offers
handwriting recognition.

detailed information: http://www.fineart.com.tw/english/product/gogopen/gogopen.asp

Hope these information useful to you.

[drwong]

i use CJKOS, works fine on my European version

[Sideway]

I use CJKOS (http://www.dyts.com) as well for viewing and entering Chinese characters. I tried Palm Dragon/Hand Dragon for a bit but went back to CJKOS.

I only use PinYin though, I find it faster than using Chinese character recognition. I can graffitti faster than I can write some Chinese characters. :rolleyes:

[amwt]

another combination is:

ChineseOS (hi-res)
http://www.waterworld.com.hk/
TC and SC display in input system (pinyin, cantonese, etc). Localisation of the UI is optional.

PenPower for Palm
http://www.penpower.com.tw/product/ppalm.htm
TC and SC handwriting input system, which itself doesn't not handle the display of chinese.

One way to learn pinyin is to write it down via PenPower and use ChineseOS to reverse lookup the pinyin code.

[YWeiLi]

I'm using CJK,too
And it has pinyin input method

[the don]

Hi! And thanks for your valuable comments. 2 more questions..

Can you CJKOS or HandDragon to input Chinese into Documents to Go? Last time I tried this it wouldn't work...

Also, I have another question. I got the Oxford Chinese <-> English Dictionary. It seems pretty limited compared to my Taiwanese students electronic dictionaries. Is there any way to expand the dictionary?

Thanks!

[Sideway]

I haven't used Docs to Go so I couldn't say. But I do use CJKOS with WordSmith so I don't see why it wouldn't work with Docs to Go. Remember that you need to activate CJKOS/HandDragon before you can start inputting Chinese.