Re: Three problems with Chinput

[Alex Lau 劉俊賢 <alexlau@thizgroup.com>]

> > You might want to use xcin for zh_TW locale. But simplified Chinese
> > is more common online these days.
> >    
>
> I tried both and found chinput more convenient featurewise.  My
> Chinese class uses traditional Chinese, and I'm going to work with
> Classical Chinese, for which I guess I'll need traditional
> characters, too.
>  
I havn't have time to try Chinput but I know you can start 2 xcin with
two different default name which you can assign different XIM to
different application.  Hope that help.
Before IIIMF become avalible I'm not sure where is X input method
really going and what IIIMF could offer ( in reality ).

> > BTW: A better pinyin input method might be SCIM, see the previous
> > posts on this list about that.
> >    
>
> I don't like the fact that SCIM's pinyin module is non-free, and
> that SCIM seems to be more of a moving target, under heavy
> development.
>  
I havn't try SCIM yet either.... is it any good?
Thanks