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treblam

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  1. I've been investigating this and if I use the Pinyin input source and type "wodewendang", the four correct Chinese characters appear in a sub-bar. I then simply need to press 1 (to choose the first option it presents me with) to convert the Roman characters into Chinese ones. Alfred then finds the file based on the Chinese file name.

     

    Have you tried it that way? It feels quite straightforward and allows you to confirm that's what you want to search for.

     

    Alfred-pinyin.png

     

    Alfred-pinyin2.png

     

    Yes, I know this. But this is not what I mean. 

     

    The functionality I was talking about is this: when your current input method is English, but you want to search for some directories or files named in Chinese. In Spotlight you just need to type the Pinyin in English, and the results will show up. The key here is that you don't need to switch to Chinese input method first, then type the Pinyin, then choose the right candidate characters. So the pinyin search reduce 3 steps to 1 step, and it's more productive.

     

    As for the example I provided above,  I type wode with English input method in Spotlight, the file "我的文档" didn't show up, I believe it's a bug in Spotlight's implementation. In other situations it's OK. So I choose another example: If I want to search for files named "集客", but I am currently in English input method(we are not always in Chinese input method, sometimes we need to input English, for example we need to type urls when we browse websites), I open Spotlight, and just type jike with English input method, and the results will show up. Look the screenshot below:

     

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  2. It only works when you have the Pinyin keyboard/Input Source activated.

     

    When you start typing Latin characters, OS X shows a little pop-up at the cursor containing the Chinese ideograms it can convert the Latin to. In Spotlight, it searches using the suggested ideograms as a query, not the Latin characters you actually entered.

     

    Activate Pinyin input and 我的文档 will pop right up when you search for "wode…" in Spotlight.

     

    Thanks for your explanation.

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