muirm Posted July 26, 2012 at 05:06 AM Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 at 05:06 AM I've been itching to try out the new Chinese-related features in Mountain Lion, so I upgraded right when I got home today. The built-in pinyin input method seems greatly improved. It handled long sentences well, and it had no problem with some "popular" words I tried. It also did very well with abbreviated input where you only type the first letter of each syllable (for common words/phrases). Supposedly Apple is auto-updating the database input method so it should stay current between system upgrades. I already uninstalled sougou (remove it from "/Library/Input Methods"). Mountain Lion also ships with a built-in Simplified Chinese dictionary. It is the Chinese-Chinese 现代汉语规范词典, the same one in Pleco except a newer version. You can search by pinyin, simplified, or traditional characters, and while the definitions are only in simplified, it does also provide headwords in traditional. Note that I had to go in to Dictionary.app's preferences to activate the Chinese dictionary before it showed up. I also noticed they changed the "look up the word under my mouse" hotkey to single three-fingered tap (rather than double tap). There are some other Chinese features related to social media and other online services, but these were the two things I was looking forward to. Anyone else try it out yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted July 26, 2012 at 06:34 AM Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 at 06:34 AM Mountain Lion also ships with a built-in Simplified Chinese dictionary. It is the Chinese-Chinese 现代汉语规范词典, the same one in Pleco except a newer version. If anybody's wondering about the latter, it's explained by the former - tough to compete for licenses with the world's largest company :-) (we have other C-C dictionaries in the pipeline that are newer / bigger, though, and we may yet get the new 规范 too albeit a bit more slowly than Apple) On the general subject of Mountain Lion, though, aside from the lovely new Pinyin system my favorite Chinese enhancement is the new fonts - along with making the Chinese reading experience much more pleasant out-of-the-box, I'm hopeful that having them around will motivate graphical designers (many of whom use Macs) to stop deploying 黑体 or 宋体 in totally inappropriate places when a design calls for Chinese characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esoyohoo Posted July 26, 2012 at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 at 03:58 PM i love the new safari,it is amazing! regarding to the chinese input, i still recommand Sogou pinyin input, much smarter and has more pop words / phrases . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbuchtel Posted July 27, 2012 at 02:08 PM Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 at 02:08 PM Does anyone know of a guide (in English or Chinese) to the new Chinese-specific improvements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muirm Posted July 27, 2012 at 05:21 PM Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 at 05:21 PM Does anyone know of a guide (in English or Chinese) to the new Chinese-specific improvements? http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#china Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.