Windows 10: Microsoft Chinese IME auto selects and modes randomly

Depending on which text box or window is focused, this icon will be either or . This of course is extremely irritating and a complete waste of users' time and sanity, and it seems to choose the wrong mode 99% of the time. There is Settings > IME Settings > Microsoft Pinyin > General > Choose IME default mode = Chinese, still, this setting does nothing, zilch, jack squat, nada. Windows will still randomly pick a mode for me based on some unpredictable broken logic. I've met people whose minds work like this, and it's very frustrating.To any so-called "experts" replying to this qu

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Preferences in Chinese IME

Hi Saylem,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

You can clear the previous saved suggestions and check if that helps. To clear the previous saved suggestions follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Press and hold the Windows + I key on the keyboard to open settings.
   
2. Open Time & Language.
   
3. Click on Region & Language.
   
4. Click on the Chinese language and select
   Options.
   
5. Now, Click on Microsoft Pinyin and click on
   Options.
   
6. Click on Lexicon and self-learning.
   
7. Click on Clear input history.
   

Hope it helps.

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Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Some problems in IME for Chinese and Korean

Microsoft IME for Chinese and Korean has some problem.

1. Touchscreen interface.

I use ChangJIe IME in touchscreen. ChangJie IME input is based on Chinese calligraphy and is not phonetic based. In most time, we can easily get only one candidate character. (For example, 倉＝人戈日口, no other candidates）. So, most time we don't need to select
character from candidate list. In real keyboard, we press "Space" instead of press number to select character. But somehow, touchscreen keyboard "DOESN'T" allow me to use space key to select character so I need to touch character in the list (even there only
one) and is very inconvenient. In Android or iOS uses "Space" to hit and select candidate key. If you understand some Chinese, try to see HK Microsoft community and many Hong Kong people complain this problem but seems they just say "We will improve"?

2. Also touchscreen keyboard, why keystroke appears in the input box? Example, assume we input 倉= 人戈日口(OIAR) so we need press 人戈日口(OIAR) but this will appear in the input box not above touchscreen IME so I need to move my eyes from top to bottom(Example
we use edge to try search something on the web so we need to type Chinese in the address bar) to see if there is any typo. In Android or iOS system keystrokes will appear at the top of the IME. This should be improved.

3. Why Chinese and Korean IME include English keyboard??

I understand most Korean and Chinese people can only speak one or two languages and their display language is also in either Korean or Chinese so therefore they don't need to frequently switch IME and they usually use "Shift" and "Left Alt" to switch English
input instead of use "Windows + Space" to switch different IME. But why don't you make an option allows Chinese and Korean IME doesn't allow to input English? It is VERY INCONVENIENT when I switch to different language and start to type, it shows English instead
of Korean or Chinese. in Mac OS, you know they use "Command + Shift" and each IME only has one language and doesn't have problem I just explained. I added "English" in language list to use English as displayed language so English IME also appears in the IME
list. This makes me to feel I have "Three" English keyboard plus Korean and Chinese keyboard. I'm so sad when I switch to different language and use "Backspace" to remove wrong characters and use "Shift" or "Left Alt" to change language again but I already
changed to different IME.

4. Character set for Changjie IME.

I was studying in Macau so I don't understand simplified characters at all but why those ugly simplified characters appear on the list of candidate keys? I found Microsoft Pingyin only shows Simplified Chinese characters so Changjie IME can eliminates simplified
Chinese characters. Pleased don't include all characters in Unicode Set of Changjie input but try to eliminate simplified characters in the database or make option to remove simplified characters which are useless for me.

 

Chinese IME in Windows 10

I have been using Microsoft Chinese IME (traditional Chinese) in Windows 10 for awhile, and the automatic "learning" feature doesn't work (listing the characters I use most first). It did work in Windows 7. Is this a bug?