youpii Posted October 16, 2006 at 05:18 PM Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 at 05:18 PM the title says all ... is there a Linux Chinese IME that allows you to type pinyin and draw characters, like Microsoft pinyin IME 2003 does under Windows ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmccabe Posted November 7, 2007 at 08:34 PM Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 at 08:34 PM Are you familiar with SCIM? http://www.scim-im.org/? It doesn't allow you to draw characters, but you can type pinyin. I'm actually bumping this thread to see if anyone else has suggestions... I'm specifically interested to see if there's some type of character drawing input method available for Linux. All I want is something like the 'handwrite characters' feature available on nciku. I'm offline much of the time, so nciku is often not a solution. I want an app that lives on my desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameproof Posted November 8, 2007 at 03:15 AM Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 at 03:15 AM It doesn't allow you to draw characters, As far as I know Xp IME can also not draw characters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1200 Posted November 8, 2007 at 08:18 AM Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 at 08:18 AM XP IME does offer some basic handwriting recognition, but i think it is not enabled by default. To enable it: you open the IME PAD then right-click on the dictionary icon (the book with the looking glass) in the left border. Choose Settings. Then add Handwriting (zh-tw) - as the name implies it works for traditional characters (though outputs unicode). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toads Posted November 8, 2007 at 09:12 AM Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 at 09:12 AM You can handwrite characters with scim, I think I did it by installing scim-tomoe or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmccabe Posted November 8, 2007 at 05:18 PM Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 at 05:18 PM Toads (or anyone), could you explain how to install scim-tomoe? I downloaded the files listed below, but I haven't found good instructions of which ones to install and how to install them. tomoe-0.6.0.tar.gz scim-tomoe-0.6.0.tar.gz uim-tomoe-gtk-0.6.0.tar.gz tomoe-gtk-0.6.0.tar.gz Here's a little more information on tomoe for others interested. I'm not sure, however, how up-to-date the information is. Tomoe website: http://tomoe.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/en/blog/index.rb tomoe overview with screenshots: http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/tomoe_01.html Sourceforge files: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=193138 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toads Posted November 8, 2007 at 05:58 PM Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 at 05:58 PM I'm afraid I don't recall the specifics, it was a while ago. I run ubuntu and I added the http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja repository, IIRC installing scim-tomoe from that was enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russmeier Posted November 19, 2007 at 12:50 AM Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 at 12:50 AM You didn't tell us which LInux you were using. I use SCIM all the time on Novell/Suse Enterprise Desktop 10. It comes installed by default. In any case, you probably should just use the automatic installation packages: 1. If you are on Suse or a distro that uses yast, try using yast to locate the scim application and install it. 2. If you are on Debian or another distro that uses apt-get, try doing apt-get install scim 3. If you've already installed scim and just want the new package, try using apt-get instal scim-tomoe. I'm sorry I'm not on Linux now to try, but good luck! Russ Meier Milwaukee, WI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipsi() Posted November 19, 2007 at 08:16 AM Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 at 08:16 AM Are there any solutions for NetBSD that can be done by a non-privileged user? Ideally from a flash drive or something, but anything would be nice. It's not really urgent anymore as my Uni account has been disabled (I've finished for the year), but it would be nice to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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