Summary settings for Cantonese

[ares]

Hello everyone
Below a summary of quick settings for using Pleco in Cantonese.

History
- 30 Aug 2014 - Original post for Pleco v3.1.2
- 14 Oct 2014 - Settings list adapted for v3.2.0

1. in Settings / Languages+Text
1.1 Characters section
1.1.1 Traditional characters: switch to ON
1.1.2 Chinese font: "STHeiti TC"
1.1.3 Headword mode: "One Set Only"

1.2 Mandarin section
1.2.1 Phonetic system: "Skip"
1.2.2 Hide phonetic pronunciation: switch to OFF

1.3 Cantonese section
1.3.1 Show Cantonese: switch to ON
1.3.2 Phonetic system: <chose your favourite>
1.3.3 Enable search: switch to ON

2. in Settings / Audio
2.1 Headword Audio section
2.1.1 Use Cantonese in popup/OCR: switch to ON

2.2 Sentence Audio section
2.2.1 Voice: Apple Cantonese

3. in Settings / Dictionary Search
3.1 Manage Dictionaries section
3.1.1 Use the "reorder" function to move CC-CEDICT to first position (optional)

4. Miscellaneous
4.1 If you have kept the Unihan dictionary in step 3. above, do a simple search for any character, then browse down the results looking for the "UNI" dictionary section. Click the small 'cogs' icon, remove "Mandarin" from the list and use "Add new" to add "Cantonese" (optional)

Any coments or suggestions are welcome
Thanks!

 

[mikelove]

We don't currently support displaying Cantonese without Mandarin, unfortunately - if you turn off Mandarin then that will turn off Cantonese too. However, if you re-enable Mandarin display then that should resolve all three of those problems you're having.

 

[mikelove]

To add: this should be fixed in our 3.2 update, though we're not going to have Cantonese readings for example sentences or for all dictionary headwords for a while yet.

 

[ares]

Just a flag as I have updated the settings for v3.2.0.

 

[GJM]

Thanks ares; very helpful, I've made a few tweaks based on your post.