Does anyone know where I may be able to download Chinese Fonts that I can use in Microsoft Word. Where if I type something in English it will translate it into Chinese and put it. Does this sort of thing even exist and if so, where I can I download it at?
You have to buy the software. Yes, it’s expensive, but I assume that you want it to work.
I haven’t use their translation software, but I would be quite surprised if the Chinese that came out of the translation would not be awkward or simplistic.
If you’re serious about translation, you’re probably better off hiring a human to translate the text.
If you are looking for just Chinese fonts, there are some very nice free ones available at: http://www.4gee.com/font/pages/fonthtml/chinese.htm. Be aware that these fonts use GB or Big-5 encoding, so if you don’t have your keyboard configured for Chinese all you will get is gibberish.
If you’re running XP you can add the Microsoft Pinyin Engine to your keyboard layouts. Go into your Control Panel, pick Regional and Language Options, then pick the Language tab. At this point, you may need to check the “Install files for East Asian languages” tab if it’s not already. From there, click the Details… button. A new window will pick up, probably with some details along the lines of <<Your Default Language>> (Your Country). Click “Add”, then find “Chinese (PRC)”, assuming you’re communicating with mainlanders, or Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (Hong Kong), if you’re communicating with any of the various other nations. Mainland Chinese use the simplified characters introduced after the 1949 revolution; Most of the islands and scattered other parts still use the traditional characters. Leave the keyboard layout as it is; this will install the Pinyin manager. Hit OK as many times as necessary; you may need to insert the Windows CD at some point. Eventually you will be back at the desktop, and your start menu will have a new little button on it, which will say EN (or whatever your default language is). Click it and you’ll get a little popup window that will let you pick Chinese to type in whatever application you’re currently using. Note that this setting is different for each application and doesn’t carry over; you can be typing in English in IE and in Chinese in Word.
Anyway, once you’ve got all that jazz down, you can open up most any app and type in pinyin (the official system of rendering Chinese into Latin characters); the Pinyin manager will in turn change your pinyin into characters. It’s generally good about figuring out which characters you mean, but you can always use the little popup window near the keyboard cursor to force it to pick one character or the other.
As far as automatic, you-type-English-and-it-gives-Chinese, typing, BabelFish offers English-to-Chinese translation, but a cursory examination suggests that it’s not so good. It translated “My mother is an American” as “My mother is America.”
Hopefully I’ve helped, or at least amused you in some way.
if you have windows 2000 or XP, you could download the IME from the microsoft website for free. they work real well.