Even though simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese are two writing forms of the same language, it may cause troubles if you only set up one as your Chinese input in your computer. For instance, when you do a search in a current trial database, China Academic Journal, you wouldn’t be able to retrieve a reasonable amount of full text articles if your search term was in traditional Chinese. The reason? The majority journals in the database are published in the form of simplified Chinese. How can you convert your search term to a simplified Chinese without reset your language input in your computer? Here is a quick solution. Go to a Chinese language conversion tool (http://www.chinesetools.eu/tools/gb2big5/), you can switch between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese quickly and easily.
As you look at more into this page, ChineseTools.eu (http://www.chinesetools.eu/) you may find other interesting tools if you are learning Chinese.
A tool for conversion between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese
