RIME: Rime Input Method Engine

Rime with your keystrokes.

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rime.im

License

The 3-Clause BSD License

Features

• A modular, extensible input method engine in cross-platform C++ code, built on top of open-source technologies
• Covering features found in a large variety of Chinese input methods, either shape-based or phonetic-based
• Built with native support for Traditional Chinese, conversion to Simplified Chinese and other regional standards via OpenCC
• Rime input schema, a DSL in YAML syntax for fast trying out innovative ideas of input method design
• Spelling Algebra, a mechanism to create variant spelling, especially useful for Chinese dialects
• Support for chord-typing with a generic Qwerty keyboard

Install

Follow the instructions to build librime on platforms other than Linux:

• macOS
• Windows

Build dependencies

• compiler with C++17 support
• cmake>=3.12
• libboost>=1.74
• libglog (optional)
• libleveldb
• libmarisa
• libopencc>=1.0.2
• libyaml-cpp>=0.5
• libgtest (optional)

Runtime dependencies

• libboost
• libglog (optional)
• libleveldb
• libmarisa
• libopencc
• libyaml-cpp

Build and install librime on Linux

make
sudo make install

Frontends

Official:

• ibus-rime: IBus frontend for Linux
• Squirrel: frontend for macOS
• Weasel: frontend for Windows

Community:

• emacs-rime: frontend for Emacs
• fcitx-rime: Fcitx frontend for Linux
• fcitx5-rime: Fcitx5 frontend for Linux
• Hamster: frontend for iOS
• PIME: frontend for Windows
• Trime: frontend for Android
• XIME: frontend for macOS
• My RIME: frontend for web
• fcitx5-android: frontend for Android

Plugins

• librime-charcode (Deprecated) Module that deals with character encoding; depends on boost::locale and ICU libraries
• librime-legacy (Deprecated) Legacy module with GPL-licensed code
• librime-lua Lua scripting
• librime-octagram Language model
• librime-predict Predict next word
• librime-proto IPC using CapnProto

Related works

• plum: Rime configuration (recipe) installer
• combo-pinyin: an innovative chord-typing practice to input Pinyin
• rime-essay: the preset vocabulary
• SCU: Squirrel Configuration Utilities

Credits

We are grateful to the makers of the following open source libraries:

• Boost C++ Libraries (Boost Software License)
• google-glog (The 3-Clause BSD License)
• Google Test (The 3-Clause BSD License)
• LevelDB (The 3-Clause BSD License)
• marisa-trie (BSD 2-Clause License, LGPL 2.1)
• OpenCC (Apache License 2.0)
• yaml-cpp (MIT License)

Contributors

• 佛振
• 鄒旭
• Weng Xuetian
• Chongyu Zhu
• Zhiwei Liu
• BYVoid
• 雪齋
• 瑾昀
• osfans
• jakwings
• Prcuvu
• hchunhui
• Qijia Liu
• WhiredPlanck