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Windows 8 Chinese Pinyin Setup2. Traditional Chinese Pinyin Input in Windows 8Other pages: Related FAQ:
After enabling Chinese input methods by following my instructions on the previous page, if you plan to work in Traditional characters then (since you're on "Pinyin Joe's" website) you probably want to use Hanyu Pinyin instead of Zhuyin Fuhao. There are two ways to use Hanyu Pinyin to enter Traditional characters in Windows 8:
Hanyu Pinyin Input in the MS New Phonetic IME
Another way to get there is, also from the Desktop, press <Windows>+I, select Control Panel, and then under "Clock, Language and Region" choose "Change input methods". As explained on the previous Pinyin setup page, I recommend using only desktop control panels, especially in Windows 8.1, as some desktop-only language feature settings may not be accessible in the Modern UI preference screens.) In this case, the Hanyu Pinyin option is not even available on the tablet side, and even if you change it on the desktop side it will not work in tablet apps. I'm searching for a solution to this problem...please let me know if you find one first. Otherwise, we can only wait for the next IME update.
When the Language panel appears, select "Options" for Traditional Chinese:
Then select the Options for Microsoft Bopomofo (previously New Phonetic):
In Microsoft Bopomofo Settings (previously Microsoft New Phonetic Settings), on the "Keyboard" tab, select "Hanyu Pinyin" from the pull-down menu. (Not "Taiwan Pinyin", unless you are sure that is what you want. I explain more the various pinyins and their predecessors on my About Pinyin page.)
Click "OK", then back on the Language panel click "Save", and you're done! Or are you?
If you have a tablet with no external keyboard, you'll be depending on the Touch Keyboard. But even after setting Microsoft Bopomofo (New Phonetic) to Hanyu Pinyin, when you first open the Touch Keyboard it will still work only in Zhuyin:
This had me stumped until someone pointed me to this tip on another website:
OK? Now this should work in any desktop app. Last time I checked, it did not work in tablet apps. In tablet apps, it stays in Zhuyin anyway. Please let me know if you find a solution to this before I do.
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Traditional Characters in the MSPY IMEMicrosoft Pinyin can give you Traditional characters or an extended character set that contains both types, but at the cost of some convenience and encoding compatibility as I explained at the top of this page. Changing this setting is simple, but there is no hotkey or other fast method to quickly switch between Traditional and Simplified after making this selection. In Windows 8, you can enter the Language panel as shown above and then select select the Options for your Microsoft Pinyin (MSPY) input method as shown below. In Windows 8.1, this control panel went missing, so you'll need to go into the tablet interface to get at these feature. See my FAQ on missing/broken Chinese features in Windows 8 & 8.1. Note that "self-learning" (sorting candidate lists by your frequency of usage) does not work when only Traditional Chinese is selected. As of Windows 8.1 that "Extended character set" that mixed the Traditonal and Simplified sets together is gone, but I never liked it much anyway.
Click or tap "OK", then on the Language panel select "Save", and you're done!
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To set the New Phonetic IME to Hanyu Pinyin input, now that you've 
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