Working Cantonese IME sought (please help!)

[atitarev]

Hi all,

I am desperately looking for a working Cantonese IME. After going through tons of broken links (don't suggest to google), useless popup "download sites", and some programs that don't work on a Western PC, I realized I won't be able to get it without someone's help. Trouble is I am not good with Chinese to be able to read the download instructions too and English language couldn't give me anything useful.

I need a phonetic word processor, based on a Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping, Yale, Lau, whatever). E.g. I type in keuih and select a character 佢. I'd prefer the one with English interface but can with a Chinese one, as long as it works on my PC and I don't see funny characters instead of Chinese.

Someone mentioned 紫光拼音 (ziguang pinyin). I couldn't find a good working download site.

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1) Microsoft IME - doesn't not support all Cantonese characters. Taiwanese IME can't use Cantonese phonetic.

2) NJStar can be used to input Cantonese to a ceartain extent but it doesn't know the pure Cantonese characters: e.g. 哋 and 嘅.

3) The Hong Kong input utility is not phonetical, I can't use it.

4) I also tried a Red Dragon Input - I only had question marks for characters, maybe it only works on a Chinese PC.

Your help is appreciated.

Anatoli

[geraldc]

You may have problems finding one, in Hong Kong everyone seems to use pen and tablet systems to write Chinese for the computer.

Here are probably the most popular pen systems.

http://us.yesasia.com/en/prdGrpDept.aspx?pid=1002903728&section=electronics&code=c&version=all&