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linuxforartists
November 17th, 2010, 10:13 PM
One of the last few things that kept me from abandoning Windows was Sogou Pinyin, a fantastic program for typing Chinese.

The main feature I liked was its "predictive" quality, that it would guess what Chinese characters I wanted from the context. Sped things up a lot from the bad old days when I'd have to individually select each character.

The latest version of Ubuntu now offers predictive text for Chinese! Here's a great website with the instructions:

Pinyin Joe's Chinese Computing Help Desk (http://pinyinjoe.com/)

Out of the different Chinese Input Method Editors (IME) available in Ubuntu, my favorite is "Pinyin," with a capital P. Same awesome predictive feature as Sogou Pinyin.

It's a really niche issue, I know. But now I can go 100% Ubuntu.

Ric_NYC
November 17th, 2010, 10:31 PM
http://pinyinjoe.com/linux/ubuntu-10-chinese-setup.htm