Marc Waeckerlin
the arguments, why I prefer (mini-)chinput over all other know chinese input modules. My test of these modules is some time avo, so perhaps they have become better?
Yes, SCIM has become much better. James Su did really a great job with SCIM.
Advantages of chinput:
- No waste of desktop space: - there is no window, no icon, nothing, as long as I don't enter Chinese - when I enter Chinese, the size of the windows is minimal
Same with SCIM
- It offers intelligent Pin-Yin
SCIM offers intelligent Pin-Yin as well. As I don't speak Chinese I cannot judge which one is better, but I trust James Su that the intelligent Pin-Yin in SCIM is better than the one in chinput.
Problems with chinput:
- font size is too small and font is not selectable (afaik)
is selectable in SCIM.
- a lot of character positions are empty (missing in font?)
No such problem in SCIM.
- can't configure ctrl-space to another key combination (afaik)
can be easily configured in SCIM. Even with graphical setup tool.
- can't enter Hiragana, Katakana, Hanja
SCIM can do this and much more.
The most important point for me is that there is no open window as long as I don't need it, because I use it seldom. - And of course the intelligent Pin Yin.
Am Samstag, 4. September 2004 19.21 schrieb Mike FABIAN
> unter "Re: [m17n] Problem with .xim on SuSE 9.1, Chinese zh_CN.UTF-8, miniChinput": I have never used chinput and there isn't a SuSE package for chinput.
There isn't? I have it. Didn't you promise to add it for SuSE 9.1? -
Yes, but this was before the intelligent Pin-Yin of SCIM became open source. After scim-chinese is available with a GPL license (many thanks to James Su), I see no reason to add a chinput package anymore.
Oh, well I see, since I am using apt4rpm, I don't always know where packages come from. The miniChinput package is packed by Thibaut Cousin, so you have to add tcousin to the /etc/apt/sources.list to install it.
I don't plan to create a package either as the intelligent pinyin module of SCIM has become GPL and will be included in SuSE Linux 9.2. So there is really no need for a chinput package anymore.
SCIM has become very powerful and can be used to input many languages now. SCIM even has built in support for compose and dead keys, with most other XIM servers you cannot use neither compose nor dead keys.
I had the problem in KDE that all KDE applications didn't handle ~ or ^ as long as chinput was running. Other applications, such as xemacs had no problem.
I cannot really believe that there was no problem in XEmacs. Probably you used an input method supplied by XEmacs and not dead keys or compose. These don't work together with XIM. It only works with SCIM when using XIM because SCIM implements the compose table of X11 again within SCIM.
But this problem is now resolved since KDE 3.3.3.
Probably only because there is some simple compose support built into Qt.
Therefore SCIM will be the default for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese in SuSE Linux 9.2.
One IM for three languages is surely an advantage,
Not only three languages, SCIM has input methods for many other languages as well. Please have a look!
I'll have another look at it, but does it now disappear when it is unused?
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Mike FABIAN