I'm looking for a font that displays the most common pinyin syllable for each Unicode codepoint that represents a Chinese character. This would allow me to open a Chinese document and flip back and forth between hanzi and pinyin just be changing the display font.
Someone has to have thought of this, but I've looked hard and can't find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
For example, in the font I want, the Unicode codepoint U+B1B1 would display as běi. If I typed 啊阿呵吖嗄腌锕, selected it, and changed the font to PinyinSyllables, I'd see this: ā ā hē ā á yān ā. The underlying Unicode would be unchanged, so I could open the document later on, select the toned pinyin, and change the font back to the 宋体 font and see 啊阿呵吖嗄腌锕 again.
There could also be a font that shows the character together with the likely pinyin above it, like ruby text, or an all-languages transliteration font that did something similar for Korean, Arabic, and so on.
If Microsoft Word's phonetic guide feature worked, I wouldn't be looking so hard for this, but it doesn't, at least not for pages at a time of text. Even though it won't pick the "right" pinyin in context when there are multiple possibilities for a given character, I think it would still be useful, and I'll be surprised if it doesn't exist.
Steve
Someone has to have thought of this, but I've looked hard and can't find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
For example, in the font I want, the Unicode codepoint U+B1B1 would display as běi. If I typed 啊阿呵吖嗄腌锕, selected it, and changed the font to PinyinSyllables, I'd see this: ā ā hē ā á yān ā. The underlying Unicode would be unchanged, so I could open the document later on, select the toned pinyin, and change the font back to the 宋体 font and see 啊阿呵吖嗄腌锕 again.
There could also be a font that shows the character together with the likely pinyin above it, like ruby text, or an all-languages transliteration font that did something similar for Korean, Arabic, and so on.
If Microsoft Word's phonetic guide feature worked, I wouldn't be looking so hard for this, but it doesn't, at least not for pages at a time of text. Even though it won't pick the "right" pinyin in context when there are multiple possibilities for a given character, I think it would still be useful, and I'll be surprised if it doesn't exist.
Steve