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in your Simplified Chinese language options, you'll find an optional automatic Simplified/Traditional or Traditional/Simplified converter.in your Traditional Chinese language options, you'll find 'Recognize rarely used Chinese, Kanji, or Hanja characters when converting handwriting to typed text', and.After handwriting is downloaded and installed per the instructions at the top of this page, you'll find options where the 'Download' buttons had been: Now let's return to discussing the Touch Keyboard.

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I track items like that in my FAQ article titled Missing, Broken, and Just Plain Lame Chinese Features in Windows 10, and will update that list as things change.

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The Simplified Chinese IME Pad never supported handwriting, only radical and punctuation lookup, but anyway that IME Pad is missing from Windows 10 at launch. On this page we'll continue discussing the new handwriting features in Windows 10 only. The Traditional Chinese IME Pad is covered in detail on the advanced features page. Most of the information below focuses on that feature.īut first, I should also mention that the original Windows Chinese handwriting feature is still available in the IME Pad for Traditional Chinese:

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(Again, in the global Windows release, display language packs are available only in the Hong Kong, PRC, and Singapore regions, but if you chose Taiwan or Macau during language setup you'll only see the download buttons for handwriting and speech.)īoth Simplified and Traditional handwriting are available in the new Touch Keyboard handwriting mode. You'll find three download buttons available at the top of the next panel, under 'Language options'. In the 'Time & Language' settings panel, under 'Region & language', select the Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese language area to reveal the three buttons you see here, then select 'Options': But in the following new settings panels, handwriting and speech are available separately.

For that, you need to select Hong Kong, PRC, or Singapore in your language setup. In the Taiwan and Macau region settings, the old-style desktop control panel will not offer you the handwriting or speech downloads, because - as of the Windows 10 launch, anyway - in that control panel they are still bundled with the language pack, and in the global Windows release, the language pack is not available in the Taiwan or Macau regional settings. If you are using the classic desktop language bar, I suggest that in this situation you use the Start menu Settings path described in the previous paragraph. You can also get to the same place via the Start menu: click 'Settings' > then in the Settings panel click 'Time & Language', and in that panel go to 'Regional settings'. If you begin at the Language menu and select 'Language preferences' as shown here, you will be able to download these items separately.

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In Windows 8 and earlier versions, Chinese handwriting was bundled with the language pack downloads, even though language packs have actually never been required to make Chinese handwriting work - or Chinese typing or reading for that matter.

The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one Chinese language and keyboard, as described on the input methods setup page.Īs of Windows 10, you do not need to download display languages - 'language packs' - unless you want to change the Windows Start menu and other system feaures into another language. These are separate downloads in Windows 10 Missing, broken, and just plain lame Chinese features Handwriting, speech, & language packs (this page)Īdvanced features ◊ Help files - in English! Simplified character input alternative: MSZY Overview ◊ Input methods setup ◊ Traditional character Pinyin input Windows 10 Chinese Handwriting, Speech, and Language Packs :: Pinyin Joe

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