Best input for Chinese (pinyin)?

kdar · 2011-09-24 02:34:08

What is best input for Chinese pinyin?
I am aware of scim and have used it before, but I wasn't big fan.

Today saw information about Fcitx on wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fcitx
Also have heard about xcin, gcin... and few others...

What is best? Can I make one of them integrate with KDE keyboard layout thing? so that I can switch between english, russian and chinese?

Last edited by kdar (2011-09-24 02:38:51)

adaptee · 2011-09-24 02:56:48

Both ibus and fcitx are popular and well maitained.

nexus7 · 2011-09-24 12:14:20

+1 for ibus regarding CJKV; for KDE there's Kimpanel

Edit:\\ for Asian and Cyrillic stuff in general you may look up also the Other languages forum.

Last edited by nexus7 (2011-09-24 16:14:48)

ChemBro · 2011-09-24 14:13:23

+ 1 for ibus from me, too. Using it for japanese.

lijunle · 2011-09-24 14:15:56

I'm using ibus with sun-pinyin to reply here.
用ibus吧，另外那个sun-pinyin引擎挺好用的。^_^

the sad clown · 2011-09-24 17:51:06

ibus works great. Korean here, but I have set it up for japanese before as well.

According to wikipedia, ibus has its roots in CJK input concerns.

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