Recommend Input Method for Native, Traditional?

igds · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 39

Can anyone recommend an input method for a native Chinese-Taiwanese (not myself) for Traditional characters (正體字 / 繁體字)? This is for a standard US laptop keyboard, but the user is not familiar with Pinyin; she knows Zhuyin (注音符號 / ㄅㄆㄇㄈ), but the keyboard only shows Latin characters. Furthermore, I have noticed her frustration with having to pick out the correct character from a long list of candidates during our experience with Windows, which subjectively has a more comfortable manner of entering text in either method.

The non-phoenetic input methods like Cangjie (倉頡輸入法), Dayi (大易輸入法), and Wubi (五筆字型輸入法) look promising, even though it looks like they also require supplementing the keyboard glyphs and extensive training (for both of us). I should also reiterate (in the case of Wubi) that I'm looking for Traditional character input.

For clarification, user also is not a proficient (touch) typist.

akar · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:48 am Post subject:

Chewing / 新酷音:智慧型注音輸入法 ScreenShot, it is promising for better experience entering chinese.

Various input methods
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igds · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 39

Thank you for your suggestion, akar. I cannot read the Chewing website, so I have asked for some information in English here.

I am also interested to know what possibilities there may be for Chinese (Traditional) handwriting recognition, as inputted by a pen tablet.

satipatthana · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Taiwan R.O.C.

There is a scim-chewing ebuild from GOT. Webpage (in Chinese): http://www.gentoo.tw/proj/ebuild/ebuild.xml

1. To use GOT ebuilds, you should have gentoolkit-dev installed:

# emerge gentoolkit-dev

2. Then open /etc/make.conf and add /usr/local/got to PORTDIR_OVERLAY using your favorite editor:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/got"

3. Create /etc/gensync/got.syncsource and add the following lines:

id="got"
description="Gentoo Taiwan Ebuilds"
rsync="rsync://rsync.gentoo.tw/gotebuilds/"
overlay="/usr/local/got"

4. Don't forget to create /usr/local/got, and run gensync:

# mkdir /usr/local/got
# gensync got

and you should be able to emerge scim-chewing.

lloyd_huang · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 3

How about using gcin for an input method for Traditional characters.
below is gcin website URL.

http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~cp76/gcin/

Hope that is helpful.