setup IME for Sogou Pinyin

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Setup Sogou in Windows and disable

As a native Chinese speaker, I sometimes need to type Chinese and thus need a Chinese input method editor (IME) on my Windows. The one that's most popular in China is Sogou. The installation and usage is straightforward. Yet itself has a lot of key bindings that I'd never use, and those key bindings conflict with vscode shortcuts (since vscode has a lot of shortcuts). So this post is about how to disable those shortcuts, and how to set up different IME for different applications, a nice feature that Windows provides

Environment: Windows 10

Sogou Settings

  1. open settings of Sogou by right-clicking on the icon in language bar
  2. [optional] 常用 -> 默认状态, select 隐藏状态栏
  3. [optional] 按键, unselect 系统功能快捷键

Windows Settings

  1. open Windows settings, go to Time & Language -> Language -> Spelling, typing, & keyboard settings -> Advanced keyboard settings
  2. choose the default input method
  3. choose Let me use a different input method for each app window
  4. click Input language hot keys, disable any key binding that you don't want to use