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Sogou Pinyin

Developer(s)	Sohu
Stable release	4.3 / 2009-10-26
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	Simplified Chinese
Type	Input method
Website	Sogou Pinyin

Sogou Pinyin Method (搜狗拼音输入法; Pinyin: Sōugǒu Pīnyīn Shūrùfǎ) is a popular Chinese Pinyin input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine.

Sogou Pinyin has launched its 3.6 version, which processes some improved functions. The 3.6 version product has advantages in functions as well as in inputing characters with high speed and precision.

A Sohu announcement, released on June 5, 2009, indicated that Sogou Pinyin input software has been installed more than 80 million times since it was released three years ago, and Sogou input software captures about 70% of the Chinese IME market.1

On Oct 26, 2009, Sogou Pinyin released its 4.3 version.

Contents 1 Problems with non-English keyboards 2 Sogou Cloud Pinyin 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Problems with non-English keyboards

It does not recognise localised keyboards; it assigns all Western characters to their positions on the English keyboard (Z is always the sixth key from left on the second row of the keyboard), that means the mapping of the keys and the relevant characters does not work. The English-speaking world uses a QWERTY-keyboard; other language groups use other keyboards, i.e. the German-speaking world uses a QWERTZ-keyboard. Different from input of western words (like "zebra" or "yet") on a German keyboard, the Sogou Pinyin Method does not recognise that on a German keyboard the letters "Z" and "Y" are interchanged. Like this, using the "Sogou Pinyin Method" on German keyboard when a user wants to type the Chinese words 'you 有' you get 'zou 走' instead, and if you type 'yi 一' you get 'zi 字' instead.

[edit] Sogou Cloud Pinyin

In 2009, Sogou launched a Bookmarklet named Sogou Cloud Pinyin (启用搜狗云输入法) that can allow any major browser to input Chinese characters on a webpage without installing any new software or plugins. It uses JavaScript and Ajax on the browser and apparently cloud computing technology on the servers.

[edit] See also

• Google Pinyin
• Microsoft Pinyin IME

[edit] External links

• Sogou Pinyin Website
• Installation support and advice
• Sogou Cloud Pinyin Website (Chinese)
• How to Input Chinese without Any Installation with Sogou Cloud Pinyin (English)

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