Windows 10: “Traditional Chinese IME is not ready yet” on Win10

Hi folks,

I have installed the language pack and added a keyboard. However, when I try to toggle between English and Chinese, a message keeps coming up saying “Traditional Chinese is not ready yet”.

How should I resolve this?

I have tried reinstalling the pack or installing another language, but none of these worked.

:)

 

No personalization Traditional Chinese Pinyin IME

Hi,

This is not very relevant to this particular problem, which occurs when the language pack and the IME is already installed and in use.

The problem is that when you use the “Microsoft Pinyin Input method" to type traditional rather than simplified Chinese characters, the personalisation options are all grayed out. As a result the IME will not remember your most commonly used characters,
which makes typing in Chinese extremely laborious. This problem does not occur when you set the same IME to "Simplified Chinese".

My questions are:

- Is it possible to turn personalisation on for Traditional Chinese? This is not straightforwardly possible in the settings.

- Or alternatively, is there an IME for using Hanyu Pinyin to type Traditional Chinese Characters which is equivalent to or better than the Microsoft Pinyin IME.

 

Keyboard input for pinyin Traditional Chinese

Whoever comes by here with the same problem, please go here (https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...tions/2283587-traditional-chinese-with-pinyin)
and give your votes to this problem.

There are many more similar suggestions, which come (as of today) to a combined value of 868 votes. Is there any possibility to have the redundant suggestions combined into one?

Here is a list of the suggestions I found on the uservoice site:

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...tions/2283587-traditional-chinese-with-pinyin

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/.../2475342-pinyin-input-for-traditional-chinese

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...ns/4011487-traditional-chinese-pinyin-for-wp8

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...nese-traditional-han-yu-pinyin-input-language

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...add-chinese-traditional-hanyu-pinyin-keyboard

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...n-keyboard-input-for-both-simplified-and-trad

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...need-traditional-chinese-pinyin-and-jyut-ping

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...tional-chinese-input-with-new-quick-and-pinyi

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...n-input-method-with-traditional-chinese-outpu

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...ws-phones-sold-in-taiwan-should-have-pinyin-a

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...e-let-the-nokia-lumia-have-traditional-chines

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...e-let-nokia-lumia-have-traditional-chinese-pi

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...phone-doesn-t-support-traditional-chinese-pin

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...uggestions/6647828-traditional-chinese-pinyin

 

Problems using a Japanese or Traditional Chinese IME on a non-Japanese or non-Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10 immediately after installing the April 2018 Update.

If you are running a non-Japanese or non-Traditional Chinese version of Windows 10 and are experiencing any of these problems, try these steps to resolve them:

Symptom 1:
You may not able to type Japanese or Traditional Chinese characters when first signing into your account.

If you are connected to the Internet, you can wait for the IME dictionaries to download.
If you’d prefer not to wait, or if are not connected to the Internet,
when selecting your operating system language, please choose a Japanese or Traditional Chinese operating system.
These languages include pre-loaded IME dictionaries.
In some cases, your PC manufacturer or enterprise may offer a customized Windows 10 you may choose that already includes an IME dictionary to avoid this problem.

Symptom 2:
You may not be able to type Japanese or Traditional Chinese characters if your do not have an Internet connection or before the dictionary is downloaded.

If you think you might have problems downloading the IME dictionary, first check if the download was successful.
To do this, open Settings, and select Apps.
Then select Manage Optional Features. If your Japanese or Traditional Chinese IME dictionaries have been successfully installed, you should see “Japanese typing” or “Chinese (Taiwan) typing”
within the list of Optional Features.

If you don’t see a successful download, try resolving this issue by manually downloading the IME dictionary.
(These steps require an Internet connection.)

1. At the Start menu, click Cortana’s search box and type “Command Prompt”.
2. Right-click Command Prompt in the search results and select
   Run as Administrator.
3. In the Command Prompt window, type one of the following command and press Enter to install the basic typing Features on Demand package:
   

• For Japanese basic typing:

DISM.exe /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:Language.Basic~~~ja-JP~0.0.1.0

• For Traditional Chinese basic typing:

DISM.exe /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:Language.Basic~~~zh-TW~0.0.1.0

Symptom 3:
Windows server update services (WSUS) may not detect your Japanese or Traditional Chinese IME in some corporate environments.

If you’re using Windows 10 Enterprise in a corporate environment and can't type Japanese or Traditional Chinese characters, please ask your local IT administrator for help.

You can find detailed information about Features on Demand and Language Packs in Windows 10 at these English-language sites:

Language packages

Features on demand

Language features on demand