Chinese input methods

[Ed Greshko]

Steve Underwood wrote:
> On 08/22/2009 12:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Steve Underwood wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Fedora 11 has changed the input method system yet again. The new
>>> system looks like its probably an improvement. However, I can't find
>>> many of the input methods that used to be available with SCIM in
>>> earlier versions. Things like jyut ping. Have I missed something, or
>>> do I need to change from Fedora 11 to something usable?
>>>
>>>      
>> I've not checked....but do you have scim-chewing installed?  I thought
>> that included jyutping....
>>    
> I have chewing installed. That only gives you the Taiwanese input
> scheme. Jyut ping was amongst the simple table inputs in SCIM. As far
> as I can see only a few of those simple table input methods have been
> carried across to ibus.
Hummm....  I thought jyutping was geared towards Cantonese.  When you
say "Taiwanese" do you really mean "Traditional" as in Traditional
Chinese Characters v.s. Simplified Chinese Characters? 

Even on my RHELv4 system with a full scim-1.4.4-2.el4 install I only
have /usr/share/scim/tables/Jyutping.bin installed and SCIM management
classifies it as "Traditional".
>
> I do hope ibus becomes the one final input scheme. This endless
> changing of input schemes, with more concern about the code than about
> users entering characters, has been a huge pain for anyone who uses
> Chinese/Japanese/Korean on Linux (and maybe other languages for all I
> know).
>
>
I've not had must problem with Japanese or Korean.  Chinese seems to be
a different issue due to the different dialects Cantonese, Mandarin,
Hakka, etc., and the various schemes to Romanize.


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