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Mandarin Chinese in Pīnyīn—Using Older ASCII Fonts

DO YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION?

This only applies if you are using an old computer operating system that does not handle Unicode character fonts.
For a modern computer using Unicode fonts, the language files are at learn_mandarin_language.htm.

OLDER VERSION OF LANGUAGE FILES USING ASCII FONTS

The older files (dated 2003-2016) listed below work with the small ASCII character set (character numbers 32-255).
These files have been phased out as their material got incorporated into the Unicode suite in September, 2017: Mandarin Chinese “Introductory Language Course” using Unicode character fonts.

Online use of htm or pdf language files:

Working online you do not need to install the Jaspell font jpinnnn01.ttf.

Downloaded pdf files:

PDFs have their fonts—whether ASCII or Unicode—embedded in them by Jaspell, so downloaded pdf files don’t you to install the fonts.

Downloaded htm files:

If you use the following older language htm files (*) offline, you will also need to install our Jaspell ASCII font:
jpinnn01.ttf

Older language files for older computer systems:

· Mandarin Pronunciation online (*) or Print a pdf —pinyin_introductory/pinyin%20pronunciation01.htm—16 June 2013

· Introductory Language Course online (*) or Print a pdf] —pinyin_introductory/pinyin_introductory01_online2.htm—26 June 2013

· Discussions using Incremental Phrases online (*) (as .htm)— pinyin_introductory/pinyin%20introductory%20i.htm—7 November 2013

· Preliminary Course Exercises online (*) or Print a pdf —chinesepinyinexercises.htm—30 March 2016

INSTALLING JASPELL’S ASCII FONT FOR OLDER FILES

· Download Pīnyīn font jpinnn01.ttf]

MANAGEMENT OF FONTS—ASCII OR UNICODE

· Chinese Pīnyīn Font management and conversion

NEW COMPUTER AND OPERATING SYSTEM THAT CAN USE UNICODE FONTS

· Mandarin Language on modern computers using Unicode fonts

SOUND FILES FOR DOWNLOADED PRONUNCIATION GUIDES

· If you download the guides containing links to sound files, you will need to download the sound files also.
You need to create a folder called “pinyinsounds” in the same location as the language file; download the sounds into that folder.

o Download Mandarin Chinese sounds.

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