Revision as of 06:49, 24 January 2013

libkkc

This feature covers the integration of ibus-kkc, a new input method to provide intelligent sentence-based Japanese Kana Kanji input, into Fedora.

There are currently two options for typical users to input Japanese sentences: ibus-anthy or ibus-mozc. However, both have issues:

ibus-anthy
- Anthy, the backend library, has been dead upstream for years.
- The accuracy is not good because of bugs in the core algorithm of Anthy.
ibus-mozc
- Contributions to the input method are limited to Google employees.
- There are no library interface. That means it cannot easily be used by other input method frameworks than IBus, such as Fcitx and uim.

ibus-kkc will be an open and better replacement of those.

Try to add "Japanese (Kana Kanji)" input source from gnome-control-center Region panel.
Enable "Japanese (Kana Kanji)" input source from the gnome-shell.
Input some Japanese text, say "watashinonamaehanakanodesu", to input a Kana-string "わたしのなまえはなかのです"
Type Space to convert it to a Kana-Kanji-mixed-string "わたしの名前は中野です".

With the libkkc back end, Japanese users can speed up the Kana Kanji input thanks to its high accuracy algorithm than ibus-anthy.

In worst case, we could drop the package and hide it from the gnome-control-center.

ibus-kkc with new libkkc backend provides a more intelligent Kana Kanji input method and speed up the user input of Japanese characters.

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 == Scope ==
 <!-- What work do the developers have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release?  Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?-->
-* Support for user dictionaries
+* Support for phrase dictionary
-* Support for Japanese numeric conversion
+* Support for Japanese numeric conversion (done)
 * Provide Anthy compatible library for smooth transition from ibus-anthy
 * Import marisa-trie, libkkc, ibus-kkc packages to Fedora