An IME (Input Method Editor) is an application that provides the ability to enter the thousands of different characters used in East Asian written languages without requiring special keyboards.
The Microsoft Global IME for Traditional Chinese is an ActiveX-based IME that enables the input of Chinese characters in supporting applications (such as Internet Explorer and Outlook Express) on other language versions of Windows. The Traditional Chinese IME provides four kinds of keyboard input mappings including Standard, Eten, IBM and ChingYeah.