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Can you add support for traditional chinese characters #19

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,
is it possible to add support to switch between traditional and simplified
Chinese characters?

thanks,

Original issue reported on code.google.com by larry1c...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2009 at 3:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
hi larry,

it's possible and is supported by scim framework. but i am afraid that this 
feature
is of low priority compared to issue#17, which basically renders the input 
method
unusable.

Original comment by tchai...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2009 at 6:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Just stumbled onto this thread. It seems that many of us have this same issue 
(pretty much all foreigners in Taiwan). I don't know if it's the most graceful 
solution, but if one doesn't need to "switch" back and forth, and just wants to 
type traditional Chinese characters efficiently, then playing with the data 
files in the src/data directory worked for me.

I used the unicode cedict dictionary to map the simplified characters in the 
src/data directory (the rawdict frequency file and valid_utf16 file) to the 
traditional equivalents. I'm sure cconv or other tools could accomplish the 
same thing. Re-compiled. Now I'm happily typing away in scim-googlepinyin and 
traditional characters. I'm happy to provide the replacement files if anyone 
needs them.

I used scim-pinyin for a long time, with the SCIM simplified-traditional 
translation feature enabled. But this is a less than optimal solution. The 
phrase intelligence available with simplified characters is completely absent 
after enabling the traditional character translation. One just has to enter 
phrases manually, and after time, you slowly (and I mean slowly) build up a 
user dictionary of useful phrases.

Original comment by jhodow...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2010 at 2:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi jhodow, can u pls provide me the files and further details on how to change 
the ubuntu scim into trad. chinese input?
Else, do we have any methods for user to enter certain frequently used, but 
unavailable phrases in the google-pinyin dictionary?

Original comment by wck...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2011 at 7:43