Fcitx (, ) stands for Flexible Context-aware Input Tool with eXtension support, is an input method framework with extension support for the

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that supports multiple input method engines including

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

transcription, table-based input methods (e.g. Wubi method), fcitx-chewing for Traditional Chinese, fcitx-keyboard for

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-based ones, fcitx-mozc for Japanese, and fcitx-hangul for Korean. It supports

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, GBK and

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s, can run in

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and

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, and supports XIM protocol,

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(both 2 and 3) and Qt input method modules. Before version 3.6, Fcitx used GBK encoding internally, which has been changed to UTF-8 in the 4.0 release. Since version 4.1, it has become highly modular, and has added support for Google Pinyin (which was ported from the Android version), fbterm, and

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. The

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was changed in the 5.0 release, from GPL to

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Features

* Theme support * Systray support * Kimpanel support (A

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based protocol for input method user interface, oriented from

) * KDE Configuration Module Support * Global Simplified and Traditional Chinese Conversion support

Available input method engines

Available separate modules

* punc: provides full-width punctuation support for CJK 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. * fcitx-configtool: A GTK+ application for configuring fcitx.

References

External links

Fcitx homepage
CJK input methods {{Linux-stub

Features

Available input method engines

Available separate modules

See also

References

External links