Termim is a terminal input method: il allows to type strange languages, like Chinese, in standard Unicode compliant terminals. The master word for termim is simple. Termim does not rely on complex client/server protocols and keeps all its data himself. The only configuration required is “which keys do you want to use to change the language?” (and “where should the man page go?”). Termim is free software.
You want to try it fast? Follow these steps:
tar -xfz termim-xxx.tar.gzcd termim-xxxmakeTERMIMRC=./termimrc ./termimThe documentation is in the source tarball. There is an online rewrite of it.
To build termim, you need a modern Unix operating system. Please note that, as far as termim is concerned, BSD are obsolete operating systems but are nevertheless supported. Termim has been successfuly tested under:
You need also a reasonably modern C compiler; gcc 2.95 and 3 are ok, as Solaris C compiler.
A perl 5 interpreter is also required to convert dictionary files into C syntax.
Read the INSTALL file. Edit the top of the Makefile
to choose your compiler and compiler flags, and the paths. Type
make. Test, type make install.
Termim is designed so that adding new input methods is possible
without changing the code (except registering it in the array of
input methods). If you want to add support for your favorite
language, read the API file. Patches are welcome.
For some languages, Chinese and Japanese are the first, termim needs dictionaries. These dictionaries are embedded in the binary. This has the adventage that the binary is self contained, and can be installed anywhere. If you are really short on disk space so you want to cut some languages, you will have to hack the source (it is easy).
See previous question for the advantage of not using external files. Then remember that on modern operating systems, binaries are memory maped so that read-only data section do not eat any memory. Using external files would require in fact more memory.
As soon as you code it, or at least provide enough information to code it. I like free software.
The current version on 2003-06-11 is the 1.0.0.
termim-1.0.0.tar.gz (778.3 ko)termim-1.0.0.tar.bz2 (755.6 ko)The first author of termim is Nicolas George.
The Korean input methods have been written by Denis Auroux.
The Japanese input method have been written by Jean Marot.
Special thanks goes to Arthur Reutenauer for his advises and beta-testing of the tonepy input method.
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