adding the input method wubihua as a simplified Chinese input method in SCIM

[Ma, Kwonghua]

There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified Chinese called Wubihua:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html

It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet available in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?  How difficult is this task?  What information / data would one need and what are the procedures?

Thanks!

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <[hidden email]>, "Ma, Kwonghua" <[hidden email]> writes:

> There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified Chinese
> called Wubihua:

> http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html

> It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet available
> in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?  How difficult is
> this task?  What information / data would one need and what are the
> procedures?

If you can contribute the code, we are glad to include it in
m17n-contrib package.  All input methods in this package can
be used by SCIM via scim-m17n.

I'll attach the template of zh-wubihua.mim file.  Please
fill in "map" for wubihua.

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[Jens Petersen]

----- "Kwonghua Ma" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified
> Chinese called Wubihua: http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html
>
> It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet
> available in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?

Is it quite different from the well-known Wubi input method that is widely used in China?  Note there are already Wubi tables in scim-tables.

Jens

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[Ma, Kwonghua]

Yes, totally different.  Wubihua is a easy to learn input method as
users only need to remember five types of strokes.  For each word, the
first four and the last one strokes are taken, that's all.


Kenichi Handa:

Thanks for your file.  However where can I find the input->word table
for wubihua?  Do I really have to type the input for each chinese word
manually?



On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Jens Petersen <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> ----- "Kwonghua Ma" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified
> > Chinese called Wubihua: http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html
> >
> > It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet
> > available in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?
>
> Is it quite different from the well-known Wubi input method that is widely used in China?  Note there are already Wubi tables in scim-tables.
>
> Jens

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[TAKAHASHI Naoto]

Kenichi Handa writes:

> In article <[hidden email]>, "Ma, Kwonghua" <[hidden email]> writes:

>> There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified Chinese
>> called Wubihua:

>> http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html

>> It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet available
>> in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?  How difficult is
>> this task?  What information / data would one need and what are the
>> procedures?

> If you can contribute the code, we are glad to include it in
> m17n-contrib package.  All input methods in this package can
> be used by SCIM via scim-m17n.

> I'll attach the template of zh-wubihua.mim file.  Please
> fill in "map" for wubihua.

I found a Wubihua collation chart on the net.  I do not know whether
we can process the html file and redistribute the result.

  http://developer.mimer.com/charts/chinese_wubihua.htm

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[David Woolley (E.L)]

TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

>
> I found a Wubihua collation chart on the net.  I do not know whether
> we can process the html file and redistribute the result.
>
>   http://developer.mimer.com/charts/chinese_wubihua.htm
>

I would suggest that, in the UK at least, someone has a database
copyright on the contents of that page, even if you strip it out of the
HTML.  I think you need to find a source that grants an explicit licence
to use the codes, or derive them from first principles from some other
source (e.g. stroke order data) that is suitably licensed, or copyright
expired.

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[Ma, Kwonghua]

The only problem is the license of this chart........  Can someone
(possibly the legal representatives of the SCIM project) clarify this
issue?

Thanks!

Kwonghua

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:12 AM, TAKAHASHI Naoto <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Kenichi Handa writes:
>
>> In article <[hidden email]>, "Ma, Kwonghua" <[hidden email]> writes:
>
>>> There is a very simple stroke-based input method for simplified Chinese
>>> called Wubihua:
>
>>> http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/wubi/hua.html
>
>>> It is widely used in macintosh and many mobile phones but not yet available
>>> in Linux.  Would someone like to port wubihua to scim?  How difficult is
>>> this task?  What information / data would one need and what are the
>>> procedures?
>
>> If you can contribute the code, we are glad to include it in
>> m17n-contrib package.  All input methods in this package can
>> be used by SCIM via scim-m17n.
>
>> I'll attach the template of zh-wubihua.mim file.  Please
>> fill in "map" for wubihua.
>
> I found a Wubihua collation chart on the net.  I do not know whether
> we can process the html file and redistribute the result.
>
>  http://developer.mimer.com/charts/chinese_wubihua.htm
>
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