[Using Sakai] unconverted pinyin

[Kenneth Robert Romeo]

Hello,

One of the instructors I work with is looking for a way to input pinyin in
our Sakai instance.  The thing is, she wants to *keep* it in pinyin,
rather than convert it to characters, for beginning level Chinese
learners.  She uses DimSum (http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html ),
but says that there are other applications such as Pinyin-Builder
(http://www.language-power.cn/pinyin-builder.html).  She types the message
in the application, then copies and pastes it into Word, email, whatever.
However, when she does this to a text box in Sakai, the letters with
accents, etc. end up as blank spaces.  My first idea was to suggest the
Microsoft US-International keyboard IME, but I don't know of a way to make
the third tone marks (and upside-down caret over a vowel).  Those marked
letters do exist in some font sets, but we are looking for a way to type
them in, rather than search and insert.

Does anyone know of a good way to enter unconverted pinyin (or pinyin-like
text), and have it come out with the correct unicode values?

Thank you,

Ken Romeo

[http://kenro.web.stanford.edu]

Academic Technology Specialist [http://ats.stanford.edu]

Stanford Language Center [http://language.stanford.edu]

 

 

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