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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Hi Hans, good to see another person in TW! 
I've found that WuBi is common, as well as Cangjie for direct radical input in professional settings, or for typesetting literary text that is not conventional use. However, a huge portion of the younger generation in Taiwan use Zhuyin Fuhao, and in China many younger folks use Hanyu Pinyin for most regular typing. There's an integrated dictionary in most IME systems so that character combinations and context reduce the amount of scrolling through character choices. Phonetic systems aren't the most efficient way to type individual characters or characters of lower frequency...but for general communication, many people prefer it.
Sadly, the only folks in Taiwan who use HP are foreigners (self included when not using Cangjie). Infuriating actually when using Linux, since SCIM/Chewing support for Traditional Chinese in Hanyu Pinyin is a bit rubbish (simplified isn't too bad, since it's dictionary-linked IIRC). |
I have been in Taiwan for over 20 years
. But I travel to China and Vietnam every month. For a foreigner a phonetic based system is, of course, the easiest to learn. I, personally, prefer Eten ZhuYin (sort of a mixture between bopomofo and PinYin) because you need fewer keystrokes. It is true that a lot of young people use ZhuYin (in Taiwan) but most I have met in China (those that took courses, not the once that learned it in the internet cafes by themselves) have learned Wubi. And I believe someone who knows WuBi or ChangJie will be faster (though word suggestion features in PinYin are getting better and make up for that) than with phonetic input. On my phones, however, I use PinYin based systems. I use Windows and Windows mobile, dabbled in Unix only for playing around with the Asterisk system a few years ago.
Anyway, if you search around on the web you can find any kind of input system for any kind of operating system. I found, for example, WuBi for Traditional Chinese windows.