OS X Mountain Lion no longer supports pinyin Chinese input with tones?
I use Macbook Air. Since updated to OS X Mountain Lion, I don't seem to be able to input Chinese using Pinyin with tones, both in Simplified and Traditional versions. For example to type "蘋果電腦“, I used to type ping2guo3dian4nao3 <space> to get that, but in the new OS, pingguodiannao<space> to get that. I like tones because tones can narrow down the subsets of choices for Chinese characters during typing. In general, that should speed up typing Chinese. Also, it's a better way for me to learn Mandarin tones are essential part of the language.
Not sure I missed some settings so this is still available in the new OS...
Thank you.
This problem is a huge disadvantage for typing in Chinese. Apple has recently touted Mountain Lion's pinyin input as being superior (i.e. quicker) when mixing English and Chinese in the same sentence. However, if you're typing Chinese words in isolation from other Chinese characters the lack of context and inability to choose a tone leaves you with hundreds (for some characters) of choices. Scrolling through the tone choices with option+tab is a slower alternative than simply typing them and it really seems to me that while Microsoft has improved pinyin input with each new OS release, Apple has taken us backwards with this one.
Please Apple, allow us to turn Dynamic Prompt off again!
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