Most Pinyin applications only support the "querty" keyboard layout by default. In this post I show you how to enable the "azerty" keyboard layout.

Google Pinyin for azerty users

It's very hard to find a Chinese (or Japanese) input method which supports Azerty keyboards.
By default most of the input methods use a Qwerty layout, in fact I couldn't find a single one
which supports Azerty out of the box. It's strange that even Google doesn't support us.

While there is no option to select the keyboard layout in the Google IME,
it's possible to manually change the layout to Azerty. This procedure is more or less the same
for all versions of Windows. (Windows 2000 and up that is....)

If you don't have Google IME, you can download it right here http://www.google.com/ime

After you've installed it, you'll have to open a tool called "RegEdit".
Press and hold the "Windows" key and press the "R" key. A new window will open:

run

Enter "regedit" and press "Enter" or click "OK".
You will see a window, similar to this one:

regedit

In the left column, look for the folder (key) called “HKEYLOCALMACHINE” and open it.
Find the key called '''SYSTEM''' and open it.
Find the key called '''CurrentControlSet''' and guess what.. open it.
Find the key called '''Control''' and open it.
Find the key called '''Keyboard Layouts''' and… open it.

There are a lot of sub keys in the “Keyboard Layout” key, but if you scroll down
you’ll eventually find one that starts with the letter “E”. If there are more than one you will
have to select them one by one until you find the one that contains “GOOGLEPINYIN2.IME”.

key

In the right column, double click on the “Layout File” item, a new window will open and you
will be able to change the value. Change it to “kbdbe.dll”:

edit

Click ok and verify the change has been saved

save

You can now close RegEdit and restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
The next time you use Google IME it will use the azerty keyboard layout

pinyin azerty ime keyboard
Last revised: 23 Feb, 2012 12:09 AM History

Discussion

Hulei
Hulei
14 May, 2011 02:20 PM

Thank you so much for this tip. I've been grappling with my AZERTY keyboard for so long trying to write Chinese. This helps so much. Plus the Google inputting system, which you've made me discover, is much better than Microsoft IME anyway.

Joe
Joe
25 Jul, 2011 09:56 PM

I was able to set up Google Pinyin to use the Colemak layout using these instructions and setting that registry entry as Colemak2.dll instead of kbdbe.dll. Fantastic!

victor
victor
09 Nov, 2011 04:31 PM

Thank you so much ! Awsome tip :o)

minirop
minirop
10 Dec, 2011 04:27 PM

It not "kbdbe.dll", it depends. kbdbe.dll is for belgium. for France it's kbdfr.dll. and for the ones like me who installed the extended French layout (so I can do æ easily) it's "kbdfrx2.dll".

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