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Sun, 06 Nov 2011

/Linux/Chinese: Chinese Input with IBUS

Until recently I was a long time user of SCIM, and then, at around the same time I noticed that the Ubuntu Desktop default was IBUS[3], and that SCIM was on it's way out.

Getting SCIM to work has always been somewhat dodgy, and I am happy to say that IBUS is less so.

I recently discovered that there is a native Linux QQ chat client[1], but published by a Chinese company and apparently(?) not Open Source. For a long time I have run Skype on my machine despite the fact that it is not Open Source, and it's bad reputation for security[2]. But an application published by a Government-controlled Chinese company is more then I can tolerate, so I am running my QQ in a Debian VM, where I also eventually intend to exile Skype and others of its ilk.

This is an absolutely minimal VM running only fluxbox. To get Simplified Chinese input going I:

apt-get install ibus ibus-pinyin ttf-arphic-ukai

Then I ran im-config as root to select IBUS as the system master input method. And then ibus-setup as my normal user to turn on the "Chinese Pinyin" input method. I believe I restarted X somewhere along the way, and after that Ctrl-Space had me typing Chinese.

[1] http://im.qq.com/qq/linux/
[2] http://blog.langex.net/index.cgi/Security/skype
[3] http://code.google.com/p/ibus/

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