Editing Pinyin (section)

=== Computer input ===
Simple computer systems, sometimes only able to use simple character systems for text, such as the 7-bit [[ASCII]] standard—essentially the 26 Latin letters, 10 digits, and punctuation marks—long provided a convincing argument for using unaccented pinyin instead of diacritical pinyin or Chinese characters. Today, however, most computer systems are able to display characters from Chinese and many other writing systems as well, and have them entered with a Latin keyboard using an [[input method]] editor. Alternatively, some touchscreen devices allow users to input characters graphically by writing with a [[stylus]], with concurrent online [[handwriting recognition]].

Pinyin with accents can be entered with the use of special keyboard layouts or various other utilities.