scim Alternatives

scim is described as 'The Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) platform project provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for POSIX-style operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix), but also a development platform to make input method development easier' and is an app. There are three alternatives to scim for Linux, Mac and BSD. The best alternative is iBus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like scim are UIM and fcitx.

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The Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) platform project provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user...

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iBus
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Free • Open Source
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Intelligent Input Bus. Input Method for many languages especially CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) but not only.
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UIM
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Uim is a multilingual input method library, whose goal is to be a flexible development platform and useful user environment for input methods of all languages.
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fcitx
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Fcitx ['fa?t?ks] is a input method framework with extension support. Currently it supports linux and Unix system, like freebsd. It has three builtin Input Method Engine, Pinyin, QuWei and Table-based input methods.
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1. Extensible by Plugins/Extensionsfcitx can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
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iBus

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UIM

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fcitx

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