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Chinese Pera-Kun for Firefox 3

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Justin, the developer of Chinese Pera-Kun for Firefox, has released versions of the plug-in that work in Firefox 3. If you’re running the current beta of FF3, check it out.
There are also some new features in the pipeline for perakun that sound pretty cool.
Justin’s put up a donation button, so if you’ve found perakun [...]

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“People call me the father of Pinyin…”

March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Guardian has a pretty cool interview with 102 year old(!) Zhou Youguang (周有光), the creator of Pinyin. The interview is short but worthwhile.

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How To Read Anything In Chinese

March 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Have you ever wanted to read an online Chinese article or blog post, but gotten frustrated by all the characters you don’t know? Using the Firefox web browser and one of its extensions, you can read and understand any document online that’s written in Chinese!
Firefox is a very secure web browser that’s free and can [...]

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