squirrel
【鼠鬚管】Rime for macOS (by rime)
keyman
Keyman cross platform input methods system running on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows and mobile and desktop web (by keymanapp)
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7.5 | 10.0 | |
4 days ago | 6 days ago | |
Objective-C | Pascal | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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squirrel
Posts with mentions or reviews of squirrel.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
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Favourite open-source apps?
RIME/Squirrel - super flexible input engine for Chinese typing.
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Reset Chinese Input Method candidate word frequency records?
I don't know how to solve your problem but one open source alternative that basically works on every system is Rime. Seems like this is the MacOS one: https://github.com/rime/squirrel
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Traditional focused Wubi input
Use RIME.
- Any good third party Mandarin keyboard layout/input system on Windows 11?
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Is there a resource that shows the input for the 5-Stroke (aka Wubihua) method for each hanzi?
It's an open source IME for your computer, https://rime.im/ and it has support for a lot of cool input methods including pinyin and zhuyin of course, as well as Shanghainese and Cantonese phonetic input, wubihua, cangjie, and a whole lot more. You can also easily switch between traditional and simplified characters with a few keystrokes. My favorite feature might be that one of the pinyin input methods, 地球拼音, allows you to enter tones on your pinyin to narrow down the characters that it suggests.
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Is there a way to use Taiwan language pack with mainland China pinyin on windows?
If you're stuck only using stock software (like on a company PC), do this, otherwise I'd really suggested RIME. It's open source, free and supports a lot more types of Pinyin. Traditional Chinese included. You can even select Terra Pinyin if you want to be able to filter the suggestions by tone.
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Does Windows or MacOS have a better Chinese Keyboard?
You can try rime.
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Need help with typing
Try Rime and choose "朙月拼音•臺灣正體", it supports typing traditional Chinese in Pinyin and fits Taiwan standard for characters.
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Ubuntu newbee here how can I set hotkey for Chinese, japanese and english inputs?
As a native chinese speaker, I recommend you install rime. It's smart and basically support all kinds of chinese input methods. To install, refer to the ubuntu section of this page and install all the require package using apt. Then open the setting app, go to region & language and click manage installed language. First change the input method framework back to ibus in the "keyboard input method system" section. Then click manage installed language, select Installed/Remove language, tick the language you want to use (In your case japanese and chinese).
- 键委们,win10上用什么中文输入法比较安全?
keyman
Posts with mentions or reviews of keyman.
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- Does anyone know if it’s possible to make a custom keyboard on Chrome?
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Looking for a keyboard I can buy either online or at some kind of store that will allow me to type phonetic symbols
Keyman is very popular among linguists, if you still prefer a keeb that will input IPA Unicode by itself, you can get a QMK compatible keyboard (like this), but you'll need to program it, as in write the code yourself.
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How to type with "historical" noto sans fonts on word?
SIL's Ukelele is a popular app for creating custom keyboard layouts on macOS. SIL also recommends Keyman if you're looking for a cross-platform app for creating custom keyboards. Keyman already supports thousands of languages so they might already have a keyboard for the languages you need.
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Trying to insert letters with diacritics
While I haven't used it myself, I have heard that Keyman is highly flexible and extensible, so it may allow OP to create a layout in its own format that has the desired behavior. Keyman was originally a commercial product, but SIL (which had long advocated its use) acquired it in 2015 and made it free shortly thereafter. The original developer seems to still be part of the team working on it for SIL.
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Why is my Keyman keyboard not compiling?
They aare on github here: https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman
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Tam Thư〈三書〉writing system for Vietnamese: Input Method Editor (IME) package is done.
For Tam Thư, specifically the phonetic Latin Quốc Ngữ and Ký Âm, I'm working off of an existing keyboard distribution platform called Keyman. It's free and open source with good developer's guide. For my case, Vietnamese typing is a bit complicated with many key sequences that makes modifications to a base glyph, and Keyman is a fit tool for that in my experience. It also follow the principle of "write once, run everywhere" since your compiled Keyman keyboard will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
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How could I help with the development of an extended Coptic Unicode Block?
From your description, yes, it sounds like your concerns revolve around deficiencies in existing keyboard layouts and possibly fonts, whereas Unicode is not concerned with those things (it has an influence on them, but is not a standard about font design or input methods). You could potentially mitigate the keyboard issue by creating your own custom layout with something like Keyman. The font part is harder because making fonts is...well, hard — but you might check out some open source font projects that support Coptic (like the Noto project), file an issue, and maybe let folks know of your willingness to provide guidance and advice even if you're unable to do the actual font work.
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Anyone know how to get the runic alphabet as a keyboard on iPhone?
If you don't know what keyman is you can check out their site here https://keyman.com
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Question about typing two specific letters in Devanagari on Windows 10
You could try using the software I'm using. I tried the Windows 10 keyboard and I didn't like it. Seems it was designed more for Hindi than Sanskrit. I use Keyman which you can find and download here for free: https://keyman.com/
- Keyman – Type to the world in your language
What are some alternatives?
When comparing squirrel and keyman you can also consider the following projects:
weasel - 【小狼毫】Rime for Windows
skia4delphi - Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
imewlconverter - ”深蓝词库转换“ 一款开源免费的输入法词库转换程序
Linux-Alt1-Toolkit - Runescape Alt1 Toolkit for Linux
home - Rime::Home is home to Rime users and developers
rime-dict - RIME 词库增强
PIPIT - A simple back-end compiler for Linux x64
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
rime-ime-han-nom-data - Han Nom Telex schema and dictionary data for Rime Weasel/Squirrel IME https://rime.im
keyboards - Open Source Keyman keyboards