Available Input Methods
SCIM supports a large number of input methods in a bunch of languages. To our best knowledge, we are trying to enumerate all the input method engines and their corresponding languages. If you know any other input methods which are not listed here, please tell us in our mailing list or our forums.
There are two summary tables which are intended to assist you to find the proper input method for your specific requirements.
Specific language IMEngines
This secton contains the packages specifically designed for a single language.
| Package |
Input method |
Language |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| scim-{anthy,canna,prime,sinhala,skk,wnn} |
anthy,canna,prime,sinhala,skk,wnn |
Japanese |
|
| scim-array |
Array 30 |
Tranditional Chinese |
|
| scim-ccinput |
pinyin based, support shuangpin |
Simplified Chinese |
Formally developed by CCOSS |
| scim-chewing |
Tranditional Chinese |
Requires libchewing |
|
| scim-fcitx |
fcitx ported to scim platform |
Simplified Chinese |
|
| novel-pinyin |
Novel Pinyin |
Simplified Chinese |
|
| scim-pinyin |
smart pinyin |
Simplified Chinese |
Formly known as scim-chinese |
| scim-python |
Pinyin (including Shuangpin) |
Simplified Chinese |
Home Page. This provides a python binding for SCIM |
| fitx |
Pinyin (including Shuangpin) and Wubi |
Simplified Chinese |
Home Page. Depends on scim-python. |
| scim-sunpinyin |
Sun pinyin |
Chinese |
|
| scim-hangul |
hangul |
Korean |
|
| scim-sinhala |
Sinhala |
Sinhala |
|
| scim-tomoe |
Handwriting |
Japanese |
|
| scim-unikey |
ukengine |
Vietnamese |
|
| rawcode |
Direct Unicode Input |
All |
Built-in IMEngine |
Multi-language IMEngines
These IMEngines (Packages) supply a lot of input methods for a variety of languages, please refer to their homepage for more details.
| Package |
Based on/Require |
Type |
|---|---|---|
| scim-m17n |
m17n library |
Bridge IMEngine |
| scim-tables |
- |
Self contained IMEngine |
| scim-uim |
uim library |
Bridge IMEngine |
| scim_kmfl |
libkmfl library |
Bridge IMEngine |
Definition:
Bridge IMEngines which normally provides a large number of input methods refer to packages based upon other libraries. With the bridge IMEngines the user can utilize all the input methods available in the original library within the SCIM platform.
