Lack of Chinese input method, consider to add fcitx5

EdwardZhangLink commented 2 years ago

I have installed TeXLive and texstudio, but I lack a proper Chinese input method to write the documentation. I need a Chinese input method like fcitx5 to add to the library.

Fcitx5 Wiki Page https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Fcitx_5 https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Fcitx_5/zh-cn Fcitx5 Source Code Page https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5

twaik commented 2 years ago

I know what is fcitx5, but it will not help. Android sends proper keycodes only in the case if you input english characters, in any other case it sends Unicode characters. Xwayland can receive input only as linux scancodes. I am planning to make additional X client based on x11vnc and xdotool code which will be able to input every single Unicode symbol.

In the case if you can not wait you can try to use any linux (not Android) on screen keyboard solution which supports chinese.

EdwardZhangLink commented 2 years ago

I know what is fcitx5, but it will not help. Android sends proper keycodes only in the case if you input english characters, in any other case it sends Unicode characters. Xwayland can receive input only as linux scancodes. I am planning to make additional X client based on x11vnc and xdotool code which will be able to input every single Unicode symbol.

In the case if you can not wait you can try to use any linux (not Android) on screen keyboard solution which supports chinese.

First of all, thank you for your reply. I am indeed a bit frustrated. I tried to understand GUI related knowledge, but now they are too complicated for me. Maybe I didn't understand your reply, maybe I didn't express it clearly, actually I don't intend to send Chinese characters to xwayland directly through Android keyboard, but give Chinese candidate words in pinyin form by inputting English characters through input method. I think fcitx5 will work like this, but maybe not so simple, hope I can get some help. Besides, I found it support wayland in fcitx5 related page, but I don't know if it is helpful. Because the special feature of Chinese input is always to use an input method to finalize Chinese input by giving Chinese character candidates, but Linux on-screen keyboard obviously doesn't have such function. Maybe we can consider to adapt package like fcitx5 first, and then test whether it is applicable. Finally, looking forward to your progress!

junrenshi commented 1 year ago

It is great to see Termux now includes two basic fcitx5 packages: fcitx5 and fcitx5-data. However, in order to actually use it to input Chinese, I have to compile and manually install extra tools including fcitx5-chinese-addons, fcitx5-configtool, fcitx5-gtk, fcitx5-qt, and libime. All these tools can be downloaded from the github repository of the fcitx project. It would be ideal if these tools are also included in Termux packages.