THKM MS New Phonetic other Chinese, Traditional input for TaiwanHKMacau.

Even if you set that IME to Traditional character mode, if you try to type in these fonts youll be bumped back into the default font (usually SimSun).

So, you can really only select these fonts after youve typed the characters by going back to highlight them and choosing the font you want.

Also, when using these fonts with the ChinaSingapore IME, if you copy your text into other applications or send to other people there may be some problems so please experiment a little first before relying on them.

These are also the standard Chinese system fonts for filenames, menus and other UI text.

The names of these particular fonts are confusing because two different vendors developed the Simplified and Traditional fonts for Microsoft.

Xin New is proportional in one set but monospaced in the other.

These take advantage of the latest ClearType display technology.

Although the low-resolution reproductions above may not do them justice, they both look great on paper.

The other fonts, even if they are new to Vista, have been available separately in one form or another for quite some time.

On my Zhuyin setup page I offer examples of those DynaComWare Pinyin and Zhuyin ruby fonts.

The macro page also explains which English fonts contain letters with Pinyin diacritics we need.

See also my 3rd-party Chinese applications page with links to cool stuff like free Pinyin-with-tone-marks IMEs and more.

Nsimsun Font Download