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Project: Mature UNIX Japanese support at last?
Plan:

The SCIM input method has been one of the most flexible and practical
input engines for inputting asian languages on UNIX for quite a while
now. Unfortunately, it's also always been incredibly unstable, buggy and
poorly maintained, and is now effectively dead despite its inclusion
in many UNIX desktop distributions. I've been trying to maintain the
FreeBSD SCIM infrastructure for a while now, with limited success.

Thankfully, Google has stepped in to create IBus
https://code.google.com/p/ibus/, a new and modern input method which
supports several conversion engines -- notably Anthy, which should make
transition for most Japanese SCIM users easy; but also mozc, Google's
new multiplatform Japanese input method, which has some cute security
features and will probably supplant Anthy.

I've updated my tutorial to use IBus and Anthy/mozc, and removed some of
the irrelevant cruft. I'll probably drop my maintainership of SCIM soon,
and good riddance.

http://grumplicio.us/fbsd_japanese.html



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