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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 <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 organizing ways to decompose + characters into componentd and compiling inputs codes off of that, and + not the technical implementation I'm doing here, which is fairly + trivial. + + 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 xorg, and it needs to work on all programs running in the terminal + regardless of whether they used cooked input(bash) or raw input(vim) + + So what I ended up on is a bash script that runs in a seperate st + terminal window, which uses grep to find the character, and inputs it + using xdotool. + + First we have a script that called with a desktop environment shortcut + (in my case i3), that finds the current xorg window id, and launches the + ime in seperate st window, with the current xorg window id as the only + argument for the ime script + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/scripts/iml">CODE:</a> + #!/bin/bash + win=$(xdotool getactivewindow) + st -e ims "$win" & + exit + + Input is read with read in a loop + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/scripts/ims">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, but differences in how these sequences are + interpreted as xinput input for the terminal vs. for terminal programs, + as well as differences between terminal emulators means that this + doesn't work very well. For vim on cool-retro-term for exampple, tab, + escape and the arrow keys work, but backsapce is interpreted as a delete + + I then simple run grep ^$code\s, rearrange the columns with awk, sort, + then take out the ranking column + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/scripts/ims">CODE:</a> + opt=$(grep "^$code\s" ~/lang/zh/boshiamy/ibus-boshiamy/boshiamy.txt |\ + #remove simplfied + grep -v 98|\ + awk '{print $3" "$2}' |\ + sort -nr|\ + awk '{print $2}') + + finally, it inputs the selected character if the input is 1-9 or Space, + using xdotool and the windowid of the original window. Note that bash + variables don't sort newlines, so the conversion of the input characters + from line seperated to space seperated was done for free. However this + makes the code less portable + + <a href="https://hairydiode.xyz/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/scripts/ims">CODE:</a> + char=$(echo $opt | awk "{print \$1}") + ... + xdotool type --window "$1" "$char" + +Downsides: + Obviously this implementation sucks, but it's meant to be a backup for + when all I have working are bash and xorg + + One issue is that xdotool seems to have a fair bit of latency, and on + certain terminal combinations seems to skip input alltogether, I think + fiddling with the input delay argument in the future might fix this. + + Another is that this method won't work on things like browsers, because + they only take input when in focus (at least on my desktop environment). + +The Future: + What I really wanted to make initially was essentially tmux with an + input method , where I would run a bash script in a terminal that would + itself pretend to be a terminal, and pass along input after going + through an input method. This would've had the added benefit of running + in the Linux console as well (although by default the linux console can + not display fonts with more than 512 characters). The output could've + also been processed such that it is displayed with brailled unicode + characters, which would've fixed the font issue +</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 +--> |