[Uim] Typing traditional Chinese with UIM

[Jon Babcock]

Duncan Mak wrote:

> I wrote to the list awhile ago. I still haven't found a way to write
> only traditional Chinese characters with UIM. Is there a way?

I think the answer is 'not yet'.

Uim-pyunihan has both simplified and traditional Chinese, all 
the kanji/hanzi/hanja included in the unified Han database of 
Unicode 4.x, in fact. At least that's what I tried to include. 
But I don't think there is a font available for Linux that will 
display all these. And, generally the fontless kanji appear 
first in the list of candidates. Not a satisfactory situation, 
especially if you only want to write using traditional 
characters. As I mentioned in an earlier message, I don't have 
time to work on this until next month. Also, my personal itch is 
to make an IME that allows the input of any kanji, regardless of 
whether it is considered simplified or traditional or Japanese 
or Korean. This is not the same thing as an IME for traditional 
Chinese. Hopefully, a native Chinese writer will take the lead 
in doing that.

Jon

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Jon Babcock <jon at kanji.com>