> The thing for Chinese input method is: Few of them are doing a good job. > Styling of Chinese, dialect, modern Chinese cultures idioms *varies*. > Even the big commercial input method failed to achieve a good job on > every aspect mentioned above. That's why you saw several of commercial > input method installed even on a single user desktop. This is why input > method tend to be inconsistent. > > The default pinyin input GNOME whitelisted is ibus-pinyin. It's a very > basic input engine that doing a relatively poor job on almost every > aspect I mentioned above. And I'm not being offensive to those > developers, Sunpinyin is no better than that. > > Develop a Chinese IME is *extremely* hard and it has commercial > barriers. Big search engine companies have much complete training > dataset than any opensource organization, commercial dictionaries from > Chinese internet media companies are covering every aspect of Chinese > culture: ancient poetry, modern word, idiom...Companies like Microsoft > and Google have a much more sophisticated Machine Learning Research > Group than any opensource organization... The question is, if it is so hard to develop a Chinese IME, then why not join together to improve it instead of having lots of half-finished ones? If we are so low on resources then we should try to avoid fragmentation, shouldn't we? Cheers, Debarshi -- There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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