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chinput

NAME

chinput - CHinese INPUT XIM server

SYNOPSIS

chinput [options]

DESCRIPTION

Chinput is an XIM (X Input Method) server which is widely used to perform Chinese input under X Window system. It is originally developed by Mingjian Yu and other programmers in early days; while now it is maintained by the miniChinput Project.

The Chinput design follows the Xi18N standard and locale mechanism. You should have locale supported in your system C library and installed before you run chinput. Chinput allows you to input the Chinese characters to an X client which supports XIM mechanism.

Currently, Chinput supports gb2312, gbk, gb18030, and big5 (used in Taiwan) character set/encodings. The input methods currently supported are:

gb* character set:

ZNPY PY SHP WB CODE

big5 character set:

PY CangJie

OPTIONS

-gb

Enable GB encoding.

-big5

Enable BIG5 encoding.

-root

Root window input style.

-overspot

OverTheSpot input style.

-onspot

OnTheSpot input style.

-offspot

OffTheSpot input style.

HOT KEYS

Control-space:

Enable/disable the connection between the XIM client and the XIM server, chinput.

Alt-space:

Circularly switch the input styles: ROOT, OVERTHESPOT, ONTHESPOT, OFFTHESPOT.

Control-Shift:

Circularly switch the input modes.

Shift-space:

Switch between ASCII and Wide ASCII modes.

Control-period:

Switch between Chinese and English punctuation sets.

FILES

Chinput searches the configuration file in the following order.

$HOME/.chinput

This is a configuration file in user's home directory.

/usr//lib/Chinput/Chinput.ad

This is a system wide configuration file.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

LANG

set the language locale. Chinput support the following locale settings. LANG=zh_CN
        LANG=zh_CN.GB2312 
        LANG=zh_CN.GBK
        LANG=zh_CN.GB18030
        LANG=zh_TW
        LANG=zh_TW.Big5

LC_CTYPE

set the character handling locale. This is depends on what kind of C library you are using. Please refer to the command "locale -a".

XMODIFIERS      

A usual locale name contains a definite format as following:
The value is Chinput. forexample:
        under bash: XMODIFIERS="@im=Chinput"
                    export XMODIFIERS
        under csh : setenv XMODIFIERS @im=Chinput

BUGS

AUTHOR

Currently maintained by miniChinput project:

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/minichinput>.

Bo Zhang (bozhang@usc.edu)

SEE ALSO

locale(1), locale(5), locale(7), localedef(1), setlocale(3)

COPYRIGHT

Chinput is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.