quail input method for wubizixing (chinese-wubi.el?)

quail input method for wubizixing (chinese-wubi.el?)

[ytrewq1]

I've been looking for a way to input Simplified Chinese into Emacs using 
the Wubizixing method but I haven't located anything appropriate in my 
local Emacs (I'm using a relatively recent CVS version).

I found an implementation at:

http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/wubi/wubi.html (GPL?)

but it appears to do more than I need and since the code feels a bit messy 
to me, I stripped it down to its bare essentials (FWIW, my modified 
version seems to work for what I need at the moment).  I'm not sure where 
the table data came from [1] so I'm uncertain as to the redistributability of 
the original and/or modified code.

On a related note, I've located some seemingly usable table data in the 
cxterm and the xsim projects:

http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/cxterm/cxterm/dict/gb/WuBi.tit?rev=1.3&view=log
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/xsim/xsim/plugins/IMs/wubi/dict/words/

I'm considering whether to write some code to translate one of the tables 
(or perhaps do both and merge them) for use in an appropriate quail input 
method.  However, before I decide whether to proceed, I'd like to know if 
there's a wubi input method scheduled to be included in Emacs (or if there's 
one there already that I've missed).  Does anyone here know?

Cheers

[1] I think there's mention about the table data originating from the
cxterm project at:

http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/wubi/wubi.html

but I'm not confident of my interpretation of the text (within the 
first few paragraphs).

quail input method for wubizixing (chinese-wubi.el?)

[ytrewq1]

I've been looking for a way to input Simplified Chinese into Emacs using 
the Wubizixing method but I haven't located anything appropriate in my 
local Emacs (I'm using a relatively recent CVS version for Mac OS X).

I found an implementation at:

http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/wubi/wubi.html (GPL?)

but it appears to do more than I need and since the code felt a bit messy 
to me, I stripped it down to its bare essentials.  I'm not sure where the 
table data came from [1] so I'm uncertain as to the redistributability of 
the original and/or modified code.

On a related note, I've located some seemingly usable table data in the 
cxterm and the xsim projects:

http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/cxterm/cxterm/dict/gb/WuBi.tit?rev=1.3&view=log
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/xsim/xsim/plugins/IMs/wubi/dict/words/

I'm thinking about writing some code to translate one of the tables (or 
perhaps do both and merge them) for use in an appropriate quail input 
method.  However, before I decide whether to proceed, I'd like to know 
if there's a wubi input method scheduled to be included in Emacs (or if 
there's one there already that I've missed).  Does anyone here know?

Cheers


[1] I got the feeling from the first couple of paragraphs of the web 
page that the author got table data from cxterm, but I'm not confident
about this interpretation of the text.

Re: quail input method for wubizixing (chinese-wubi.el?)

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm considering whether to write some code to translate one of the tables 
> (or perhaps do both and merge them) for use in an appropriate quail input 
> method.  However, before I decide whether to proceed, I'd like to know if 
> there's a wubi input method scheduled to be included in Emacs (or if there's 
> one there already that I've missed).  Does anyone here know?

You might want to ask emacs-devel@gnu.org instead.
I don't think there is and I think we'd welcome such a contribution, but
I actually don't really know what I'm talking about,


        Stefan

Re: quail input method for wubizixing (chinese-wubi.el?)

[Kenichi Handa]

Sorry for the late response.

In article <loom.20050502T100048-120@post.gmane.org>, ytrewq1 <ytrewq1@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been looking for a way to input Simplified Chinese into Emacs using
> the Wubizixing method but I haven't located anything appropriate in my
> local Emacs (I'm using a relatively recent CVS version).

> I found an implementation at:

> http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/wubi/wubi.html (GPL?)

> but it appears to do more than I need and since the code feels a bit 
> messy to me, I stripped it down to its bare essentials (FWIW, my modified
> version seems to work for what I need at the moment).  I'm not sure where
> the table data came from [1] so I'm uncertain as to the redistributability 
> of the original and/or modified code.

> On a related note, I've located some seemingly usable table data in the
> cxterm and the xsim projects:

> http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/cxterm/cxterm/dict/gb/WuBi.tit?rev=1.3&view=log
> http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/xsim/xsim/plugins/IMs/wubi/dict/words/

> I'm considering whether to write some code to translate one of the tables
> (or perhaps do both and merge them) for use in an appropriate quail input
> method.  However, before I decide whether to proceed, I'd like to know if
> there's a wubi input method scheduled to be included in Emacs (or if 
> there's one there already that I've missed).  Does anyone here know?

I don't know about work about that but I think supporting
wubi in Emacs is very important.  When I visited Beijing
this March, I found that most of books about Chinese input
method were about wubi.

> Cheers

> [1] I think there's mention about the table data originating from the
> cxterm project at:

> http://daiyuwen.freeshell.org/gb/wubi/wubi.html

> but I'm not confident of my interpretation of the supposedly relevant
> text (within the first few paragraphs).

As I can't read Chinese, I can't tell anything about that.
If you translate it (the part mentioning copyright) in
English and send to RMS <rms@gnu.org>, he'll decide whether
we can use there data or not.

If you find a clearly free Wubi table, please let me know.
I'll implement Wubi input method based on it (provided that
we need only table lookup).

---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org