Cool beans. I guess I don't need a keyboard with 3,000 characters after all.

Well, it took five minutes to install the character sets, but it looks like it is not too hard to use pinyin to generate Chinese characters. You type the pinyin syllable and then hit enter to get the most commonly used character, or type that and then the number of the tone and hit enter.

Yeah, I'm wondering how to go about learning Chinese calligraphy -- here it is. I will be the world's first pinyin calligrapher! (Okay, I can't claim to have thought of it, my friend mockingly suggested it, skeptical that I will be able to learn Chinese.)