Current Version and Compatibility
It is marketed by the Wenlin Institute, a commercial software company run by Tom Bishop. The current version is 4.0.2 (April 22, 2011), and a free demonstration version of the old version (3.4.1) with a very small dictionary is available for download. This version supports several functions such as stroke order, ordering characters by different criteria (stroke order, radical, number of strokes), audio files of characters being pronounced, and the identification of drawn characters.
Version 3 runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. As of August 2005, the company is working on a Java version.
Version 4 requires Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP and Apple Mac OS X for Intel (10.4 through 10.6). For Mac OS X, Intel processor only (not PowerPC) machines are supported.
Wenlin runs on Linux using Wine, but no official support is available yet.
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