Well, the non-Chinese language support coming to fcitx is a story only since 2012, and obviously, it’s very hard for us (fcitx developers) to advertise fcitx to non-Chinese user. But I surprisingly find that there are some people around the world using fcitx.<\/p>\n
Today, while I was spying fcitx-im.org search history via Google webmaster (It will give me some information about what keywords will lead to the website), I noticed a keyword “fcitx \ud55c\uae00” . This indicates there are some people using fcitx for typing Korean alphabet. So I just try to explore more, by typing this word into Google and search. And Google shows me some more result, and even one page in the result is a blog about how to configure fcitx.<\/p>\n
And a few days ago, I noticed a video on youtube, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7JWcoqteGwQ<\/a> . It’s that some other people make a video about configuration (And I even found a bug of fcitx-configtool in the video \ud83d\ude1b ), which is about how to type Malayalam with fcitx.<\/p>\n Though I’m a developer of those input method, actually I have very little knowledge about Hangul (I learned some basic idea of Hangul when I develop fcitx-hangul), and exact no knowledge about Malayalam (I even thought it was Malaysian yesterday). And fcitx really needs people from other languages to test it and use it.<\/p>\n Those discovery makes me very happy, since obviously fcitx is really helping some one in some unknown-to-me part of the world.<\/p>\n P. S.<\/p>\n Following is some real advertisement, fcitx have some unique benefit against others: it archieves both high-modularization, independence, but also high-integration. The core of Fcitx only depends on libc, while every other thing can be replaced.<\/p>\n To get more native UI out of box: https:\/\/fcitx-im.org\/wiki\/Kimpanel<\/a><\/p>\n Fcitx doesn’t treat input method framework as a set of separated input method engines, but includes other helpful function which is done by “typing text” in it.<\/p>\n Type unicode, globally, everywhere: https:\/\/www.csslayer.info\/wordpress\/fcitx-dev\/unicode-input-support\/<\/a><\/p>\n And you can even use fcitx as a clipboard manager by Ctrl+Semicolon.<\/p>\n Fcitx really eats its own dog food, it uses the exact same code, to support spellcheck\/hint while typing even with plain keyboard layout, and add English word hint to Pinyin at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, the non-Chinese language support coming to fcitx is a story only since 2012, and obviously, it’s very hard for us (fcitx developers) to advertise fcitx to non-Chinese user. But I surprisingly find that there are some people around the … Continue reading