How to Get Pinyin out of Chinese Char & Write Pinyin Tone Mark on Mac

My OS X 10.9.4 (13E28).

Here are 2 different items I am going to cover:
I. How to show the pinyin out of your chinese character (automatic by mac).
II. How to get your pinyin tone when you are typing pinyin.


I. How to show the pinyin out of your chinese character

1. Example: we are in Mac Keynote
2. Choose your Keyboard > Input Sources is Pinyin

3. Type the chinese character

4. Block the words you want to get pinyin. Go to Format > Phonetic Guide Text

5. Choose the pinyin

Now you have pinyin on top of your Chinese character

II. How to get your pinyin tone when you are typing pinyin

1. System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > + > English > [right pane] U.S. Extended > Add



2. Choosing keyboard from menu bar



3. How to create the pinyin tone

First tone: Press option + a and then a, e, i, o, u, or v to create ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, or ǖ.
Second tone: Press option + e and then a, e, i, o, u, or v to create á, é, í, ó, ú, or ǘ.
Third tone: Press option + v and then a, e, i, o, u, or v to create ǎ, ě, ǐ, ǒ, ǔ, or ǚ.
Fourth tone: Press option + ` and then a, e, i, o, u, or v to create à, è, ì, ò, ù, or ǜ.
The vowel ü with no tone: Press option + u and then u to create ü.

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Typing Complex Burmese Script on Mac with UNICODE

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Please notice the terms: encoding, font and keyboard. UNICODE is an encoding, Myanmar Census is a font. I will use UNICODE fonts just to simplify the story.

Contents:

1. Preface
2. Getting UNICODE Burmese font and keyboard on Mac OS X.
3. Typing complex UNICODE Burmese script.
4. UNICODE Burmese keyboard map on Mac OS X.

1) Preface

1. There are 2 well-known Burmese fonts / encodings: Zawgyi and UNICODE. Locals used to use Zawgyi, but more and more people move to UNICODE. It is recommended to use UNICODE.
2. If a person is writing with UNICODE and your device is installed with Zawgyi, generally, you are unable to read the text (the scripts might be wrong, or some dotted circle appears).
3. UNICODE has several fonts, such as "Myanmar3" and "Myanmar Census" (recommended).
4. In most cases, if your friends have documents with "Zawgyi" while you use UNICODE, you still can read it by opening the file, select all text, and change the font to "Zawgyi" (you will need to install Zawgyi font first).
5. You can find more notes and keyboard layout on John Okell's "Burmese fonts guide 2016" Using Burmese fonts on a computer.

2) Steps to get UNICODE Burmese font and keyboard on Mac OS X

(Here is for Windows)

1. Adding from "System Preferences" > "Keyboard" > "Input Sources" > find "Myanmar - QWERTY"
2. Make sure to check the "Show Input menu in menu bar" box
3. When you want to use, choose the Myanmar keyboard from the menu bar

System Preferences

Choose the keyboard

3) Typing complex UNICODE Burmese script (option 1 = simple way) * (thanks to Stephen Spurlock's comment!)

1. Choose keyboard "Myanmar QWERTY"
2. To get က္လ [see Image 2.2]: press your keyboard on "k" and then "f" and then "l". 

3) Typing complex UNICODE Burmese script (option 2)

1. Make sure you have "Unicode Hex Input" keyboard added.
2. When you want to use it, hold "Option" on your keyboard, and type the number. For example you want to type က (1000) [see Image 2.1]: hold "Option", press "1", "0", "0", "0".
3. To get stacked consonant:
   (1) type the 'main' consonant, (2) hold " Option", press "1","0","3","9", (3) type the consonant at the bottom.
4. To get က္လ [see Image 2.2]:
   (1) hold " Option", press 1000, (2) hold " Option", press 1039, (3) hold " Option", press 101C.
5. You can download the list of unicode from these urls: Unicode U1000, and Myanmar uni v2

Image 2.1

Image 2.2

4) UNICODE Burmese keyboard map on Mac OS X (I map it myself but got the template from Apple Support)

Note:

To get င်္, for example for တနဂင်္နွေနေ့, instead of using SHIFT+z, 

type တနင် first + press f to get the င် up, then add ဂ = t + n + z + q + f + g

(12 Jun 2018)

Reference:

1. John Okell's "Burmese fonts guide 2016" Using Burmese fonts on a computer
2. Writing with unicode on mac
3. Burmese Keyboard Layout
4. mingalapar forum: how-to-install-myanmar-zawgyi-font-on-mac-os

List of Unicode:
1. http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=4096&number=128&utf8=string-literal
2. http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1000.pdf
3. http://unicode.org/notes/tn11/myanmar_uni-v2.pdf

Last modified: 05 Dec 2016

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Reading and Writing Burmese Script on Windows Computers

Halo,

Please note that they are not "font and keyboard", the correct term is "encoding"; though I still use font and keyboard because I think it is easier for me to understand.

Contents:

1. Preface
2. Reading Burmese script on Windows.
3. Writing UNICODE Burmese script on Windows.
4. Writing Zawgyi Burmese script on Windows.
5. Burmese keyboard map on Windows  (I map it myself but got the template from Google)

1) Preface

1. There are 2 well-known Burmese fonts (encodings): Zawgyi and UNICODE. Locals used to use Zawgyi, but more and more people move to UNICODE. It is recommended to use UNICODE.
2. If a person is writing with UNICODE and your device is installed with Zawgyi, generally, you are unable to read the text (the scripts might be wrong, or some dotted circle appears).
3. UNICODE has several fonts, such as "Padauk", "Myanmar3" and "Myanmar Census" (recommended).
4. In most cases, if your friends have documents with "Zawgyi" while you use UNICODE, you still can read it by opening the file, select all text, and change the font to "Zawgyi". See below "Reading Burmese script on Windows."

2) Reading Burmese script on Windows

1. It is ok to download all the fonts (encoding) (1) UNICODE "Myanmar Census" and other fonts https://github.com/khzaw/awesome-myanmar-unicode, (it used to be somewhere here, but it expired i guess); (2) Zawgyi https://code.google.com/archive/p/zawgyi-keyboard/downloads.
2. after finish download, double click on the .ttf file and click "Install",
3. open the file on Microsoft Word,
4. select all words (ctrl+a),
5. ask the file owner which font he is using, change font respectively: to UNICODE "Myanmar Census" OR "Zawgyi".

You should be able to read it now.

3) Writing UNICODE Burmese script on Windows

(Here is for MAC)

1. Click the "Language preferences" on right bottom corner,
2. "Add a language",
3. Find and click on "Burmese".
4. When you are going to type with Burmese, click on the "ENG" and choose Burmese; don't forget to choose the UNICODE font on the font options (see above picture on section "2) Reading Burmese script on Windows")
5. Now you can type မင်္ဂလာပါ => r + i + f + F + : + v + m + y + g 

4) Writing Zawgyi Burmese script on Windows

1. Go to Google Code zawgyi-keyboard
2. Download and install the zip file
3. On any box where you want to type your Burmese script (browser, Microsoft Office, etc); press "Shift" and "Ctrl" at the same time to change from normal keyboard to Zawgi (vise in versa)
4. Find the Keyboard map on the bottom of this post

5a) Windows UNICODE Burmese keyboard map (I map it myself but got the template from Apple Support)

5b) Keyboard option 2: Zawqyi Keyboard Layout. I have tried it, but not very accurate.




Last modified: 22 July 2016

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