Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

[Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>]

i know very little about existing chinese input methods, so this is more a
question for my own understanding than a suggestion, but:

there is ktrans for Plan 9; the latest version i'm aware of is described here:
	http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/s39.html
although that page is a bit hard to read since line breaks are not preserved.
the contents are just the README from the tar file; maybe easier to just
download that and read there.

anyway, the general idea is that it can compose kanji from strings of
hiragana. it's also been used for other languages (although my memory of
that says it was mostly for the transliteration function, rather than the
compositing function). is it possible to do something similar for the hanzi,
composing them up from roots/stems? i've seen reference to the idea in
chinese dictionaries, but have no idea if it's use is widespread.

i've had ktrans working on 4th edition in the past, although i just tried again
(after a long gap), and it blows an assert, which i've not looked into yet.