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“Web-based Chinese Input Service (WebIME) is a webpage that enables users to input Chinese characters on Internet anytime, anywhere. It provides five conventional Chinese input methods (Cangjie (倉頡), simplified Cangjie(簡易), Hanyu pinyin(漢語拼音), Cantonese Pronunciation(粵語拼音)[#1] and Chinese dictionary-like method (Radical/Number of Strokes(部首/筆劃))) augmented with two special features, homophone and candidate characters filtering. WebIME aims to bring more ease and convenience for users to input Chinese characters when surfing the Internet.

Web based Chinese Input service has two modes:

  WebIME (Compatibility mode)

compatibility mode 
  WebIME (Default mode)

Default mode 

The major differences between the 2 modes are:

Promotion Materials (promotion.pdf, 832KB)

leaflet
poster

Demonstrations of the basic usages and features of the WebIME

demonstration webpage 
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If it is uncertain whether an application can accept characters coded in 20000-2FFFF, a user could try the compatibility mode.
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Hardware requirements Browser requirements Font requirements

Example 1:To input a character (224CC) included since the publication of HKSCS-2004

Since Microsoft’s HKSCS-2001 addon on Windows 2000/XP does not include this character, it is shown as a square by Firefox 3.0.10



It is shown as a "?" by Firefox 2.0.0.20



It is shown as blank by IE 7.0



Since Windows Vista’s bundled font includes many Chinese characters newly included in the ISO/IEC 10646:2003, this character is properly displayed.



Example 2:To view a character coded in E000-F8FF using Firefox 3.0.10 on Mac OS X 10.4


Before font configuration



After font configuration



More details on the font configuration of Firefox to view the characters in the Private Use Area in the compatibility mode are shown this document ( pdf format, 400KB ).

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WebIME Download Area
(for web administrator’s reference)

** Users of the WebIME do NOT need to install the WebIME. User should browse the http://www.ccli.gov.hk/webime-e.html where they can input Chinese characters.

If web administrators would like to modify or install the WebIME on their own web servers, please download the following cim-download.zip, and read the Installation Instruction.

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(Please right-click and save the file to your computer)

The cim-download.zip contains the following files: