Bug#689963: ITP: ibus-libpinyin -- Intelligent Pinyin engine based on libpinyin for IBus

[Asias He <asias@debian.org>]

[CC'ing Peng Wu, the upstream author]

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 09:49 PM, Asias He wrote:
>>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Asias He<asias@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name    : ibus-libpinyin
>>    Version         : 1.4.92
>>    Upstream Author : Peng Huang<shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>
>>                      BYVoid<byvoid1@gmail.com>
>>                 Peng Wu<alexepico@gmail.com>
>> * URL             : https://github.com/libpinyin/ibus-libpinyin
>> * License         : GPL2
>>    Programming Lang: C++, Python
>>    Description     : Intelligent Pinyin engine based on libpinyin for IBus
>>
>> It includes a Chinese Pinyin input method and a Chinese ZhuYin (Bopomofo)
>> input method based on libpinyin for IBus.
>>
>>
> Hi there!
>
> Why is it better than let's say:
> - sunpinyin
> - ibus-googlepinyin
> - ...

ibus-linpinyin is based on libpinyin which is a joint effect of
SunPinyin, Novel Pinyin and iBus-Pinyin.
See Peng's slides http://www.slideshare.net/pengewu/libpinyin

--
Asias