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[ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Disclose first:
- I am libchewing developer
- I am Debian Developer in pkg-ime team which maintains libchewing, libpinyin, libzhuyin.


In short, please use libchewing or libzhuyin for Traditional Chinese user.


Different between Simplified and Traditional Chinese is not only about the word, but also about the phrase. For example, mouse is called "鼠標" in Simplified Chinese, and "滑鼠" in Traditional Chinese. The words I used here are all Traditional Chinese variant, but the phrases here are from different variant. So if I see "鼠標" in an article, , even when the word itself is Traditional Chinese, I will say it uses Simplified Chinese or it is translated badly from Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese. In fact, there is a tool, called opencc, to do the conversion between different Chinese variants, and you can see it has a big dictionary to do phrase mapping [0].

For an intelligent Chinese input method based on pronounce, it is all
about phrase database and to predict what user really want via
prediction algorithm and phrase database. If libpinyin does not have
separate phrase database for Traditional Chinese, it cannot compare to
libchewing, libzhuyin who has Traditional Chinese phrase database for
Traditional Chinese user.

[0] https://github.com/BYVoid/OpenCC/tree/master/data/dictionary

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502311

Title:
  Support a Traditional Chinese input method

Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Our pinyin plugin only provides support for  Simplified Chinese  and Traditional Chinese is often requested.
  In Taiwan especially many people use Zhuyin  and it is taught in elementary schools. 

  Ubuntu has a Chewing implementation on the desktop, presumably an
  approach similar to the pinyin plugin can be developed.

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