[Uim] uim for chinese user(Chinese Simplified)

[YAMAMOTO Kengo / YamaKen]

At Sun, 5 Nov 2006 01:38:28 +0800,
zhanghuangbin at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> ÔÚ 2006Äê11ÔÂ6ÈÕ ÐÇÆÚÒ» 01:05£¬ÄúдµÀ£º
> > Hi Michael, sorry for late response.
> Never mind. 'Better late than never.' ~_^
> 
> >
> > At Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:24:30 +0800,
> >
> > michaelbibby at sohu.com wrote:
> > > but i think all chinese people will need a easy way to input
> > > a phrase, like "�0�0�0�4�0�1¨²"(type 'zhongguo', see the attached image,
> > > use fcitx), but uim can't do this.
> > >
> > > for example, maybe i want to type a phrase in chinese: "�0�0�0�4�0�1¨²",
> > > in uim, i should type 'zhong' first, then type 'guo', but
> > > all other chinese input method(like 'fcitx(www.fcitx.org)' or
> > > 'scim' can type 'zhongguo' to input this phrase.
> >
> > I agree about the importance of such phrase-based Chinese input.
> > But since no serious developer speaking Chinese is currently
> > involved with our development, we have no plan for the feature.
> >
> > We would support if a developer want to implement the feature
> > for uim.
> 
> I'm not a developer, i think i can't help you all in this way.
> but i think the developers who want to provide phrase-based feature
> can read the code of fcitx -- one of the most popular chinese
> input method, stable, light, less dependency.

Thanks for the information.

I took a look fcitx-3.4.1. But unfortunately, it looks basically
a monolithic XIM server, and porting it into uim-fcitx seems not
so easy. Although its Chinese input core looks concentrated in
py.c and table.c, it is still depending on other Fcitx's own UI
parts that deeply tied with XIM (such as ime.c,
ui.c). Separating it from XIM will be a considerable work that
requires Chinese language processing knowledge.

Do you know future development plan of Fcitx? If the input core
has gotten independent of XIM, someone could consider porting it
into uim-fcitx (but sorry, we cannot promise).

> Homepage of Fcitx:
> http://www.fcitx.org
> 
> Download page:
> http://www.fcitx.org/main/?q=node/9
> 
> If you don't understand the chinese language, you can download the
> lastest source tarball here:
> http://www.fcitx.org/download/fcitx-3.4.1.tar.bz2
> 
> Previous version:
> http://www.fcitx.org/download/fcitx-3.3.1.tar.bz2
> http://www.fcitx.org/download/fcitx-3.3.tar.bz2
> http://www.fcitx.org/download/fcitx-3.2.1.tar.bz2
> 
> Please contact me if you think i can help you in any way. :)
> 
> Thanks.

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