iOS 8

[Kerim Friedman]

Does anyone know anything about changes to Chinese support in iOS 8 or Mavaricks? One thing I've noticed is that iOS 8 will allow third party keyboards, which should allow for alternative input methods beyond the built-in ones. Anything else?

kerim

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P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Associate Professor

The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures

College of Indigenous Studies

National DongHwa University, TAIWAN

副教授國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系

[Tom Gewecke]

I have heard about these (but do not have iOS 8 to verify):

The 14 countries where QuickType should work include China and Taiwan.

Real time inline Chinese translation via Bing?

New UI localization in HK Chinese

Lunar calendar

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[D G Rossiter]

In Mavericks the pinyin input method has changed slightly... better or worse? you decide.

Previously one could type pinyin for a character followed by a number for the tone -- this was an option that had to be selected in Preferences. That has disappeared. In its place, you now type pinyin and then, if you want, Option-Tab to cycle through the tones, whether or not they are available  *for that pinyin* (if no possible character, the list is empty). So for example "hen" cycles through 4 tones and the 5th "cycle" shows the list of all characters regardless of tone (in case you forgot the tone). 噷， 痕， 很， 恨 are the first choices for the tones. This list is adaptive (as in older versions of the OS), your popular character come earlier in the list, if you chose "adjust word frequency" in the preferences.

So this change (1) can add keystrokes (if beyond the 1st tone) but (2) does not require a change to the preferences.