Fcitx
Encyclopedia
Fcitx（acronym for "Free Chinese Input Toy for X", ） is a Chinese language
input method for X Window that supports Pinyin
transcription, Wubi method
and other Chinese input methods for computers
.
It supports UTF-8
, GBK
and GB 18030
character encoding
, can run in Linux
and FreeBSD
, and supports XIM protocol, GTK+
(both 2 and 3) and Qt input method modules.
Before version 3.6, Fcitx was internally using GBK encoding, which has been changed to UTF-8 in the 4.0 release. In version 4.1, it becomes highly modularized, and adds support for Google Pinyin ported from Android, fbterm, and KDE
.
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
input method for X Window that supports Pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
transcription, Wubi method
Wubi method
The Wubizixing input method , often abbreviated to simply Wubi or Wubi Xing, is a Chinese character input method primarily for inputting simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese text on a computer...
and other Chinese input methods for computers
Chinese input methods for computers
Hundreds of Chinese input methods are available for entry of Chinese characters into computers, but most keyboard-based methods rely on either pinyin phonetic readings or root shapes in Chinese characters...
.
It supports UTF-8
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...
, GBK
GBK
GBK is an extension of the GB2312 character set for simplified Chinese characters, used in the People's Republic of China.GB abbreviates Guojia Biaozhun , which means national standard in Chinese, while K stands for Extension...
and GB 18030
GB 18030
GB18030 is a Chinese government standard describing the required language and character support necessary for software in China. In addition to the "GB18030 code page" this standard contains requirements about which scripts must be supported, font support, etc....
character encoding
Character encoding
A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in...
, can run in Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
, and supports XIM protocol, GTK+
GTK+
GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...
(both 2 and 3) and Qt input method modules.
Before version 3.6, Fcitx was internally using GBK encoding, which has been changed to UTF-8 in the 4.0 release. In version 4.1, it becomes highly modularized, and adds support for Google Pinyin ported from Android, fbterm, and KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
.
Features
- Theme Support
- Systray support
- Kimpanel Support (A DBus based protocol for input method user interface, oriented from KDEKDEKDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
) - KDE Configuration Module Support
Available Input Method Engines
- fcitx-pinyin: A Chinese IME
- fcitx-table: A Chinese IME
- fcitx-sunpinyin: A Chinese IME using Sunpinyin as its backend.
- fcitx-googlepinyin: A Chinese IME using Google Pinyin which is ported from Android.
- fcitx-handwriting: A handwriting IME using Zinnia as its backend.
Available Separate Modules
- punc: provides full width punctuation support for CJKCJKCJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which is used in the field of software and communications internationalization.The term CJKV means CJK plus Vietnamese, which constitute the main East Asian languages.- Characteristics :...
users. - chttrans: provides Simplified Chinese conversion to Traditional Chinese.
- fullwidth: provides full width character support.
- cloudpinyin: provides an extra candidate word from web for all Hanyu Pinyin input methods.