The english version won't ship with Chinese support. Why all of the Asian carriers and HTC themselves continue to harbor the belief that no laowai or non-native Chinese person would desire this is beyond me. Anyway, here are the instructions, copied from another thread. Mike, this question seems to come up all the time - would it be possible to stick these instructions on your support page, or possibly have the final Pleco 2.0 installation cab install the font to the windows directory and set the right keys?
CE-Star
CE-Star is the idiot-proof option if you don't want to follow the rather complex instructions below. Most HTC devices come with a license for this, you just need to figure out how to download from their site. Personally I'm not a big fan of it, as it adds a lot of bloat to the system. Everything CE-Star does can be done for free aside from Handwriting recognition.
To display chinese for free throughout Windows Mobile:
You need to move the ZYSong font which ships with Pleco to the Windows directory. Exit PlecoDict completely, using the Quit command in the Dict menu, then use File Explorer to go to
\\Program Files\PlecoDict; tap-hold on SimSun and choose "Cut" from the menu that pops up. After that, go to
\\Windows\, tap-hold in an empty space in that window and choose "Paste" to move the font there.
The hard part from here is that you need to edit the registry, which requires a separate registry editor - Total Commander is one free option. I'm not going to go into specific steps on how to edit the registry here. Go to this MSDN article for a listing of all the keys that need to be modified:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms901082.aspx
Change the tags referenced there, but you'll modify the string they use:
\windows\simsun.ttc,NSimSun
becomes:
\windows\simsun.ttc,ZYSong
Soft reset your Pocket PC (stick a paperclip in the reset hole in the back). Chinese should be displayed throughout your system now. In Microsoft Word ZYSong should now show up in the list of available fonts.
To Input Chinese for free:
I started using ZTA4 for Pinyin input, though it also seems to support stroke and t9 styles as well. It walks all over CE-Star's pinyin input. (much better prediction, learns, and allows you to enter just the first pinyin letters of each syllable in a phrase for faster entry)
Download here:
http://www.a4user.com/A4_down_sip.asp
Other things you need to be aware of:
- Pocket Outlook will default to your local encoding when sending email, you need to manually change each chinese email to UTF-8
- SMS support is dependent on your carrier. Most U.S. carriers can't handle chinese SMS, most Asian ones can. If the carrier supports it you don't need to do anything special.
- Big5 and GB2312 encoded web pages - CE-Star has a special hack which does this, but uses a lot of memory. If you really need to see those types of pages a better solution is to find a cooked ROM with a WinCE.nls file containing the Chinese encodings. I've never needed to read those types of web pages on my PPC, so just enabling the character display and installing a free IME is enough for me.