Cantonese language online and offline resources

[Quest]

With the first program, I wasn't able to input  (GE) (possessive particle) - I tried both GE and GC, nothing came up. Otherwise, it looks good! I tried some other Cantonese characters.

gc works for me.

[Quest]

You can also do this if you want -- add your own spelling:

[atitarev]

Thanks very much for your help, Quest, but I have different screens from yours! In the setup menu not all characters are displayed correctly.

Also, I couldn't get to display the GE (possesion) and DEI (plural suffix) characters we talked about.

Not sure what else to try. Do you have a Western or Chinese Windows? I believe I have full support of Chinese characters on my Windows XP Pro machine. They are displayed correctly in my IE 6.0 browser and I can paste them into MS Word. Can you describe your system (Windows version, regional settings)?

[Quest]

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[wai ming]

For anyone who's reasonably fluent in Mandarin, there are some good resources for download at ftp://topyes.com. But since they are aimed at native Mandarin-speakers from mainland China, you do need a reasonable understanding of Mandarin to use them.

[Altair]

I have had similar problems to the one originally posted, but this discussion had inspired my to look deeper in Wenlin, which is my input method. I am finding that Wenlin seems to have at least the basic Cantonese-specific words and particles. The only issues are that I have to guess at the pinyin equivalent for the Cantonese character, which can be somewhat difficult at my level of ability, and that sometimes Wenlin does not give information about Cantonese specific meanings to confirm whether or not the character is the correct one for the particular use.

[atitarev]

For anyone who's reasonably fluent in Mandarin, there are some good resources for download at ftp://topyes.com[/url']. But since they are aimed at native Mandarin-speakers from mainland China, you do need a reasonable understanding of Mandarin to use them.

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I have had similar problems to the one originally posted, but this discussion had inspired my to look deeper in Wenlin, which is my input method. I am finding that Wenlin seems to have at least the basic Cantonese-specific words and particles. The only issues are that I have to guess at the pinyin equivalent for the Cantonese character, which can be somewhat difficult at my level of ability, and that sometimes Wenlin does not give information about Cantonese specific meanings to confirm whether or not the character is the correct one for the particular use.

Wenlin is good but not for Cantonese input - it will only give Cantonese pronunciation for characters. It doesn't support 100% of Cantonese specific characters, try pasting or entering "" lip (lift, elevator) 車 + 立 character

Red Dragonfly input is the only free program for Cantonese phonetical (Jyutping) input that worked for me.

[Quest]

It doesn't support 100% of Cantonese specific characters, try pasting or entering "" lip (lift, elevator) 車 + 立 character

I didn't know such a character existed! In fact, I can't even see what's in the quotation.

[skylee]

I didn't know such a character existed! In fact, I can't even see what's in the quotation.

It does. It looks like this -> [車立].

It is also listed under "十二畫" here -> http://ihome.ust.hk/~lbsun/hkloan.html

We can be quite creative sometimes ...

[atitarev]

It does. It looks like this -> [車

[wai ming]

This link is not accessible

It works for me. Does your browser support ftp?

[atitarev]

It works for me. Does your browser support ftp?

Yes, I use some other sites. It doesn't support anonymous logons - do you use a logon there? Anyway, is there a Cantonese input software?

[wai ming]

atitarev:

No, I don't have a log-in. It works for me using Mozilla Firefox, although I haven't been able to access it consistently today, for some reason.

And no, it doesn't have any Cantonese input software, sorry. There is some other input software on http://www.yueyu.net/yueyin/xiaz.htm - I found the link to the ftp://topyes.com site on www.yueyu.net - I'm not sure how good it is or whether it's already been reviewed on this thread though.

The ftp site is mainly listening and audio-visual materials which are on www.yueyu.net, but the links on www.yueyu.net seem to be broken, so it's best to go straight to the ftp site.

[atitarev]

atitarev:

No' date=' I don't have a log-in. It works for me using Mozilla Firefox, although I haven't been able to access it consistently today, for some reason.

And no, it doesn't have any Cantonese input software, sorry. There is some other input software on [url']http://www.yueyu.net/yueyin/xiaz.htm[/url] - I found the link to the ftp://topyes.com site on www.yueyu.net - I'm not sure how good it is or whether it's already been reviewed on this thread though.

The ftp site is mainly listening and audio-visual materials which are on www.yueyu.net, but the links on www.yueyu.net seem to be broken, so it's best to go straight to the ftp site.

Thanks, I'll try Yue2k download.

[Ncao]

For those who know jyutping I suggest an ime from herehttp://www.cantonese.org.cn/Soft/2006/200605/Soft_20060513104337.html. It's pretty good. It uses traditional and have all the Cantonese characters. But the local has to be in the PRC to download properly.