Developer Notes: Learning To Read Chinese Using Primezero’s Hanzi To Pinyin Converter
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
from my Developer Notes:
One of the cool things you can do with the Primezero Hanzi To Pinyin Converter is practice reading articles in Chinese.
When I first started learning Chinese, I used NJStar. However, it was not convenient to install NJStar CJK Word Processor to simply view a Hanzi To Pinyin Conversion of a simple text clipping.
So, I created my own Hanzi To Pinyin Converter.
URL: http://www.hanzitopinyin.com/
It is still in development but you can try out some conversions now. I want this conversion utility to provide users the following features for now:
- Simple copy, paste and conversion functionality.
- Ability to copy and paste the converted Hanzi and pinyin into Microsoft Word documents and other applications for further annotation.
- Ability to jump over to the Primezero i18n Terminal to research individual characters and similar words.
- Flexibility to meet user requests for new features with extensibility baked into the code design.
more later…
