List of input methods for UNIX platforms

This is intended as a non-exhaustive list of input methods for UNIX platforms. An input method is a means of entering characters and other glyphs not normally supported by a user's input device — e.g., typing Chinese logographs using a QWERTY keyboard. See the input method

Input method

An input method is an operating system component or program that allows any data, such as keyboard strokes or mouse movements, to be received as input. In this way users can enter characters and symbols not found on their input devices...

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Name	\|Languages supported	XIM	Qt4 Qt (toolkit) Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface , and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers...	GTK+ 2 GTK+ GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...	GTK+ 3 GTK+ GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...	Other
IBus Intelligent Input Bus The Intelligent Input Bus is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems...	Multiple languages, including CJK CJK CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which is used in the field of software and communications internationalization.The term CJKV means CJK plus Vietnamese, which constitute the main East Asian languages.- Characteristics :...	✓	✓	✓	✓
SCIM SCIM The Smart Common Input Method platform is an input method platform containing support for more than thirty languages for POSIX-style operating systems including Linux and BSD....		✓	✓	✓
uim Uim uim is a multilingual input method framework. Applications can use it through so-called bridges.- Supported applications :...		✓	✓	✓	✓	Leim Leim Leim is an acronym for the Library of Emacs Input Methods.This library is not an integral part of the Emacs system, and it is provided in the corresponding leim package.... , TTY Tty (Unix) tty is a Unix command that prints to standard output the name of the terminal connected to standard input. The name of the program comes from teletypewriter, abbreviated "TTY".When the program runs, it will output something like this:$ tty/dev/pts/4... and TSM (Mac OS X)
GCIN	Chinese input method server for Big5 Traditional Chinese character sets, expandible with input methods e.g. from SCIM.			✓	✓
xcin	Mainly for traditional Chinese; adapted for use for simplified Chinese.	✓
oxim		✓	✓	✓
fcitx Fcitx Fcitx（acronym for "Free Chinese Input Toy for X", '） is a Chinese language input method for X Window that supports Pinyin transcription, Wubi method and other Chinese input methods for computers....	Mainly for Simplified Chinese	✓	✓	✓	✓	fbterm
InputKing	Chinese (traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese), Japanese and Korean.					Browser based
im-ja	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	✓		✓
kinput2		✓				kinput2 protocol
Nunome						Qtopia Qtopia Qt Extended is an application platform for embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants, video projectors and mobile phones...
ATOKX ATOK ATOK is a Japanese input method editor produced by JustSystems, a Japanese software company.ATOK is an IME with roots from 1983 and DOS, but it now supports a large number of platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS....		✓		✓
ami	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	✓
imhangul				✓	✓
Nabi		✓
qimhangul			✓
xvnkb	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	✓
x-unikey		✓

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