[Uim] Typing traditional Chinese with UIM

TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki tkng at xem.jp
Tue May 11 08:14:40 EEST 2004


Hi,

On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:16:22 -0600
Jon Babcock <jon at kanji.com> wrote:

> To achieve our goal of producing a practical IME for traditional 
> Chinese input, the kanji candidate lists must be made even shorter.
> 
> Simply differentiating the 'umlaut u' (by, for example, using 
> 'v'), and the plain 'u', would be a big step forward in 
> shortening the kanji candidate lists. Adding tones will also 
> help. Finally, of course, we will want to have a full dictionary 
> of multisyllabic entries.

I must study about the difference of 'umlaut u' and plain 'u'. It will
take a while.

And, because I made uim-pinyin-big5 from XCIN's table, (Off toppic: so
it's GPL) adding tones will not be so difficult. (I will be able to do
such work in 2 or 3 hours.) But I'm not confident in does it help native
Chinese users. Inputting tone by keyboard seems troublesome for me.
Is it helpful?

Regards,


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TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki
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