Chinese input methods

[Ding Yi Chen]

>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?

chewing supports Zhuyin (bopomofo) but not jyutping.

The packing of ibus-table-jyutping is on the way, but if you don't want to wait,
you can either use gcin's jyutping input method ,
or use scim and install scim-table-chinese-extra.

Please make further IBus input method requests at:
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/list

so we know what's missing. :-)

-- 
Ding-Yi Chen
Software Engineer
Internationalization Group
Red Hat, Inc.

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