Author: yamakenz Date: Fri Jun 29 17:50:04 2007 New Revision: 4634 Added: wiki/WhatsUIM.wiki
Log: Created wiki page through web user interface. Added: wiki/WhatsUIM.wiki ============================================================================== --- (empty file) +++ wiki/WhatsUIM.wiki Fri Jun 29 17:50:04 2007 @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ += What's uim? = + +Uim is a multilingual input method library, whose goal is to be a flexible development platform and useful user environment for input methods of all languages. + + +== Features of uim == + +There are some input method frameworks in the world. What is the feature of uim and how it is different from other input method frameworks? + +=== Portable === + +uim works in many environments, including of course general desktop systems such as GNOME or KDE. It also supports Linux Zaurus, Mac OS X. + +||uim on Linux Zaurus||||uim on MacOS X|| +||http://zaurus-ja.sourceforge.jp/images/imkit/imkit-0.4.0-pre6-candidates.png||||[http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.yatsu.info%2FMacUIM%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Google Translation of its wiki (JA->EN), no screenshot available]|| + + +=== Just a library === + +Many input method frameworks such as XIM are implemented as client/server systems. But uim is a library, not a server. + +Most users don't need an input method system at all or only need simple, table-based converters. Such users don't require or are unwilling to install a complex input method system, so we want to keep uim simple. + +== What applications can I use with uim? == + + * All X applications. (You can use them with [UIM_XIM uim-xim].) + * Gtk+ applications such as gedit. There are two way to use uim. Through uim gtk+-immodule directly, or through xim immodule. We recommend using uim through gtk+ immodule directly. + * All Qt applications. There are two ways to use uim, through XIM or Qt-immodule. If you want to uim with Qt-immodule, you need to use [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fimmodule_2dqt a patch] now. + * All console applications. (You can use them with [UIM_FEP uim-fep].) + * Emacs (You can use it with [UIM_EL uim-el]). + +== What Languages and Input modules can I use with uim? == + + * Chinese + * New Pinyin (Simplified) + * Pinyin (Unicode) + * Pinyin (Traditional) + * Chewing (Traditional)(http://uim.googlecode.com/svn/uim-chewing-trunk/) + * Japanese + * [http://sourceforge.jp/projects/anthy/ Anthy] + * [http://sourceforge.jp/projects/shinji Mana] + * [http://taiyaki.org/prime/ PRIME] + * SKK + * T-Code + * TUT-Code + * Korean + * Byeoru + * Hangul (2-beol) + * Hangul (3-beol) + * Hangul (Romaja) + +And you can input many languages by using uim-m17nlib, see (http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-en/) + +== Why is uim written in C? == + +We can ensure a stable ABI, which is crucial to uim since it's a basal library. +Particularly, maintaining an ABI in C++ is sometimes difficult. + +== Why does uim have an embedded scheme interpreter? == + +Because C is too primitive to work with directly. Scheme lets us be more productive.
