How to enter pinyin itself under Windows? Is it possible to enter text as if normal Chinese text is entering



i.e. with guessing of correct characters, but later entering Pinyin of entered text, not characters themselves?

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Usual IME's won't have that feature... so I think you have two approaches here.


Use a special IME or IME scheme, for example 地球拼音 from 中州韵输入法引擎(RIME). Reference: this Chinese post
Type Chinese first, then search for a Chinese-Pinyin conversion tool/online app, for example http://hanyu.iciba.com/pinyin.