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.
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.
A new stable version has been released with two important bugfixes.
It's a bugfix version of 1.4 stable branch. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
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