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Pinyin Okay is a TrueType Times font for Windows (3.1 thru XP) and Mac used to display and print the Hanyu Pinyin transcription system for Mandarin Chinese. 

Downloading and installing

• Right-click on the following link and select "save link".

• Right-click on the following link and select "save link".

• Copy both pinyinok.fot and pinyinok.ttf to your Windows font directory;
• Go to Control Panel, select Fonts and install the Pinyin Okay font.

Using Pinyin Okay

• The Pinyin Okay font will display
  • vowels with two dots (") as vowels with a first tone symbol;
  • vowels with an acute accent (') as vowels with a second tone symbol;
  • vowels with a circumflex (^) as vowels with a third tone symbol;
  • vowels with a grave accent (`) as vowels with a fourth tone symbol.

  Examples: typing "Bêijïng", "Shànghâi" en "Zhèngzhöu" and selecting the Pinyin Okay font will display these names with the correct tone marks, both on screen and in printed text.

• To facilitate typing vowels with diacritics in Windows, select the US International keyboard definition in the Control Panel. When selecting this option your system may ask for one of the following files:

*) Windows 3.1 en Windows NT: decompress zip file.

• The US International keyboard setting defines so-called "dead keys", enabling you to

• place two dots over a vowel by pressing <"> (double quote) and the vowel;
• place an acute accent over a vowel by pressing <'> (single quote) and the vowel;
• place a circumflex accent over a vowel by pressing <^> and the vowel;
• place a grave accent over a vowel by pressing <`> and the vowel.

Tone symbols over the vowel ü are encoded in Pinyin Okay by means of capitalization. This means that the font will convert Ü to "first tone ü", Ú to "second tone ü", Û to"third tone ü", and Ù to "fourth tone ü".

last updated on 24 December 2003

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