For people who have difficulty speaking Mandarin, however, this advantage becomes its disadvantage. Systems allowing the user to input incorrect pronunciations alleviate this problem somewhat.
Because pinyin is used mostly in the [[People's Republic of China]], pinyin methods frequently work better when inputting [[simplified Chinese]]. Depending on the quality of the traditional Chinese support of the system in question, input of [[traditional Chinese]] may not work, or it might not be possible to input some characters, or some of the convenience features might not work.
