Fcitx

Fcitx ([ˈfaɪtɪks], Chinese: 小企鹅输入法) is an input method framework with extension support for the X Window System that supports multiple input method engines including Pinyin transcription, table-based input methods (e.g. Wubi method), fcitx-chewing for Traditional Chinese, fcitx-keyboard for layout-based ones, fcitx-mozc for Japanese, fcitx-hangul for Korean.

It supports UTF-8, GBK and GB 18030 character encoding, can run in Linux and FreeBSD, and supports XIM protocol, GTK+ (both 2 and 3) and Qt input method modules.

Before version 3.6, Fcitx used GBK encoding internally, which has been changed to UTF-8 in the 4.0 release. Since version 4.1, it has become highly modular, and has added support for Google Pinyin (which was ported from the Android version), fbterm, and KDE.

Features

• Theme support
• Systray support
• Kimpanel support (A D-Bus based protocol for input method user interface, oriented from KDE)
• KDE Configuration Module Support
• Global Simplified and Traditional Chinese Conversion support

Available input method engines

• fcitx-anthy: A Japanese IME using the anthy engine^[1]
• fcitx-googlepinyin: A Chinese IME using Google Pinyin which is ported from Android.
• fcitx-handwriting: A handwriting IME using Zinnia as its backend.
• fcitx-hangul: A Korean IME
• fcitx-keyboard: An IME based on keyboard layouts
• fcitx-kkc: Kana Kanji converter, a Japanese IME
• fcitx-mozc: A Japanese IME using the mozc engine^[2]
• fcitx-pinyin: A Chinese IME
• fcitx-rime: support for the Rime input method engine^[3]
• fcitx-qw - Flexible Input Method Framework - QuWei engine
• fcitx-sunpinyin: A Chinese IME using Sunpinyin as its backend.
• fcitx-table: for many table-based Chinese IMEs, e.g. Wubi and Zhengma
• fcitx-unikey - A Vietnamese IME using the Unikey engine.^[4]

Available separate modules

• punc: provides full-width punctuation support for CJK users.
• chttrans: provides simplified Chinese conversion to traditional Chinese.
• fullwidth: provides full-width character support.
• cloudpinyin: provides an extra candidate word from web for all Hanyu Pinyin input methods.
• fcitx-configtool: A GTK+ application for configuring fcitx.

See also

• Intelligent Input Bus
• uim

References

1. ↑ https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-anthy
2. ↑ https://github.com/fcitx/mozc
3. ↑ librime
4. ↑ https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unikey

External links

• Fcitx Homepage
• Fcitx Users Mailing List
• Fcitx Developers Mailing List
• Fcitx @ Google Code
• Fcitx @ GitHub