Welcome to the Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) platform project, which provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for POSIX-style operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix), but also a development platform to make input method development easier.
Currently the SCIM project has a wide range of input methods (some may need other libraries), covering more than 30 languages, including (Simplified/Traditional) Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many European languages. Composing/Dead key support is also one of the built-in features. In addition, several projects have been established to design IMEngines for SCIM and others supply their own SCIM plugins.
Latest News
New IMEngin bring SCIM to python world
Thanks to shawn.p.huang, a python wrapper for SCIM is available now which is called scim-python. With the help of this binding, besides C++, it is now possible to write your input method in python.
scim 1.4.7 has been released.
A new stable version has been released with two important bugfixes.
scim 1.4.6 has been released.
It's a bugfix version of 1.4 stable branch. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
Brand new dual CPU server
Thanks to our generous sponsor AWTOHOST, this website is now hosted at a much faster server, with dual CPU (P4 3.0G) and 1G of RAM. The service should not be interrupted in any way. If you do notice issues with this new server, please post comment to this news.
Email delivery issue fixed
Since middle October, email delivering in this host had some issues. It should have been fixed. If you could not receive your confirmation email after registration, please re-register your account. All those inactive accounts have been deleted from the database, so you can use your emails original used.
