Input methods

An input method is a way to use any data as input, for example to use a standard Latin keyboard for writing Chinese characters. Gentoo has several input method frameworks available:


 * fcitx — supporting multiple languages and IMEs, mostly for Simplified Chinese, but also other scripts
 * IBus — supporting multiple languages and IMEs
 * SCIM — supporting multiple languages and IMEs
 * uim — supporting multiple languages and IMEs

The gentoo-zh overlay includes some more packages (and not just for Chinese).