[Scim-user] [ scim-Feature Requests-2793453 ] must improve traditional chinese input via pinyin

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Feature Requests item #2793453, was opened at 2009-05-18 16:34
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Category: scim-pinyin
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: rike (erikfelt)
Assigned to: James Su (suzhe)
Summary: must improve traditional chinese input via pinyin

Initial Comment:
The standard SCIM traditional chinese input does not have a good mandarin pinyin option. It is possible under the simplified chinese Smart Pinyin if you click the 中 button 3 times, but the suggested characters/phrases are no longer very helpful or good. Plus it is very annoying to always have to click the button 3 times. Under the Traditional Chinese method list, they should have their own mandarin pinyin option, not having to use the one in the simplified list.

Some people say that only Taiwan uses traditional, and most people there know/use ZhuYin (bopomofo). However, this is not acceptable. In some major cities, like Taipei, they have switched to teaching children pinyin.

So, I think SCIM for traditional pinyin users should be made as good as the Smart Pinyin for simplified. Windows and Mac are both very good at this already. I hope SCIM can catch up very soon.

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Comment By: David Oftedal (d_oftedal)
Date: 2009-05-19 00:40

Message:
I agree with the original poster.

It's currently possible to type Traditional Chinese using SCIM-Chewing
with the Hanyu Pinyin keyboard, but using that method is a very cumbersome
process, as a tone has to be explicitly specified by hitting a number key
for each syllable, which slows down typing, candidate selection can only be
performed by hitting predefined keys or letters, which is inefficient, and
an undefined input sequence, such as an unexpected space, tends to make the
method lock up and give no response.

SCIM-Pinyin, on the other hand, works very intuitively, so much so that
its presence is almost unnoticeable. If SCIM-Pinyin could somehow be
adapted to use a Traditional Chinese dictionary, or an input method for
Traditional Chinese of the same quality as SCIM-Pinyin could be found and
adapted to the SCIM framework, it would be a fantastic addition to SCIM's
functionality.

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