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diff --git a/jankime.html b/jankime.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c54176 --- /dev/null +++ b/jankime.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<head> +<title>Janky IME</title> +<meta charset="utf-8"/> +<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://hairydiode.xyz/style.css"/> +<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="https://hairydiode.xyz/img/fav/logo.png"/> +</head> +<body> +<div class="content"> +<pre> +<!-- +123456789-223456789-323456789-423456789-523456789-623456789-723456789-8234567890 +一二三四 +-->-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +<a href="https://hairydiode.xyz">>HairyDiode</a> + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +<!-- +123456789-223456789-323456789-423456789-523456789-623456789-723456789-8234567890 +一二三四-->Janky IME 6-29-2023 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +UPDATE: This IME is now tmux based, old xdotool version is still <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/bim.git/tree/ims">here</a> + +UPDATE2: I have created the most cursed thing in existance. Full unicode display +and input support in the linux console using only userland bash/busybox and +tmux. See <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/unihome.html">we have unicode at home</a> + +A new python version came out, so of course that means every python package on +my rolling-release system has broken. This includes ibus, which I need for my +input method. I'm currently running some web-crawling scripts that I don't want +to stop, so while I wait for my machine to finish downloading all of <a href="https://www.rcsb.org/">PDB</a>, I decided +to write a janky bashscript implementation of ibus table so that I can still use +嘸蝦米. + +Background: + 嘸蝦米 (EN: Boshiamy) is a proprietary component-based input method for + Chinese. They offer paid software on iOS, Android, and Windows, but no + Linux version is available. On my phone I gladly pay for a Boshiamy + license, but on Linux I use this implementation of Boshiamy using ibus + table from <a href="https://github.com/jdh8/ibus-boshiamy">here</a>. + + However, I urge that people pay for the license anyways as most of the + actual work in creating an IME is organizational. The technical aspects + of IMEs are fairly trivial as you'll see here. + + In technical terms, it's just a very large TSV file with the first + column being the input code, the 2nd being the character, and the 3rd + being a ranking for ordering which character comes first when selecting + them. + + EX: + typing wso[SPACE] or wso1 inputs 浩, typing wso2 inputs 澢 + wso 浩 100 + wso 澢 99 + + It can also be used for non-chinese characters such as è + ,ne è 100 + +The Implementation: + I want this to work in the terminal, and I want it to only require bash, + and tmux, and it needs to work on all programs running in the terminal + regardless of whether they use cooked input(bash) or raw input(vim). + + So what I ended up on is a bash script that runs in a seperate tmux + panel and sends input to the previously active panel + + Input is read with read in a loop + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/bim.git/tree/imt">CODE:</a> + OIFS=$IFS + export IFS=""; read -rsn1 i + IFS=$OIFS + + IFS="" is done to make it read spaces as input, but this makes this + implementation very brittle and probably not portable depending on bash + versions. This also passes along control and special characters such as + delete and move left, and it seems tmux handles most of the differences + between terminals. An older version of this ime using xdotool did not + handle these control characters well. + + I then simply run grep ^$code\s, rearrange the columns with awk and sort, + then take out the ranking column + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/bim.git/tree/imt">CODE:</a> + opt=$(grep "^$code\s" ~/lang/zh/boshiamy/ibus-boshiamy/boshiamy.txt |\ + #remove simplfied + grep -v 98|\ + awk '{print $3" "$2}' |\ + sort -nr|\ + awk '{print $2}') + + finally, it inputs the selected character into tmux if the ime input is + 1-9 or Space. NOTE: bash variables don't store newlines, so the + conversion of the input characters from line seperated to space + seperated was done for free. However this makes the code less portable + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/bim.git/tree/imt">CODE:</a> + char=$(echo $opt | awk "{print \$1}") + ... + tmux send-key -t "!" "$char" + +Downsides/The Future: + This works in the linux console but obviously the linux console has + limitations on what text it can display(by default the linux console can + not display fonts with more than 512 characters). I think I'm gonna + write a bash based cbrll implemntation and a character displayer as well + so that I can get full userland unicode display and input support. +</pre> +</div> +<br> +<br> +</body> +<!-- +if you're digging in the src you might be interested in how this site works +here: https://hairydiode.xyz/meta2 +--> |