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Supplemental user Guide for the uim Input Method on Debian Buster.

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Please read InputMethodBuster first.

Since current Debian default Desktop install uses Gnome wayland, this page focus on Gnome wayland.

(Please limit content to the basics.  If you have detailed and specific topics, please create other pages and link them from this page.)

== uim Input Method Framework ==

uim is a Lisp based input method framework.  This also has non-X, non-wayland support program which directly communicate with EMACS.

=== Input Method Engines for uim ===

For `uim`, the installation of their associated Input Method Engine (IME) support packages or `uim` itself pulls in all the common IME packages.

|| Language || IME support package || Note ||
|| Multiple languages || DebianPkg:uim || Pinyin (Chinese cn) and M18N library program support ||
|| Chinese (tw) || DebianPkg:uim-chewing || Chinese zhuyin input (tw) ||
|| Japanese || DebianPkg:uim-mozc || Multi-phrase conversion (architecture limited to popular platforms) ||
|| Japanese || DebianPkg:uim-anthy || Multi-phrase conversion (recently, somewhat buggy) ||
|| Japanese || DebianPkg:uim-skk || Simple conversion (emacs) ||

== Gnome and uim ==

See InputMethodBuster#Gnome_and_non-ibus first.

As long as `uim` is the only installed IM framework, `uim` works as is.  No special activation needed for each engine.

The start up speed of uim is intentionally slowed.  So please expect to wait several seconds to get fully working uim.

 
== See also ==

 * [[JapaneseEnvironment/IbusSupportforBuster|Debian 10 / Buster でuim からIBus or fcitx に移行するためのメモ]]

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