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hime

HIME(1) 						    hime input method platform							   HIME(1)

NAME

       hime - an input method server

SYNOPSIS

       hime [-h|-v|--version]

DESCRIPTION

       hime  is  an input method(IM) server, which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. It is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese,
       and many other languages. IM table format of hime is almost as same as those of scim and xcin. Users may append their IMs to hime very eas-
       ily.

       If you are looking for configuration tool of hime, please see the manpage of hime-setup.

OPTIONS

       -h, -v, --version
	      Show version of hime.

FILES

       /usr/share/hime/table/gtab.list
	      Input  methods  available  for  hime.  You  may  copy  it to $HOME/.config/hime/ and edit it as you like. If you have no $HOME/.con-
	      fig/hime/gtab.list, /usr/share/hime/table/gtab.list will be used.

       /usr/share/hime/script/utf8-edit
	      A file helps hime finding text editors when needed. You may add any UTF-8 compatible text editor to it.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       LC_CTYPE
	      For bash: export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
	      For csh: setenv LC_CTYPE zh_TW.UTF-8

       XMODIFIERS
	      For bash: export XMODIFIERS=@im=hime
	      For csh: setenv XMODIFIERS @im=hime

       GTK_IM_MODULE
	      For bash: export GTK_IM_MODULE=hime
	      For csh: setenv GTK_IM_MODULE hime

       QT_IM_MODULE
	      For bash: export QT_IM_MODULE=hime
	      For csh: setenv QT_IM_MODULE hime

       HIME_CONNECT_MSG_ON
	      Display messages for socket connections.

       HIME_DBG_TMP
	      Display additional debug messages.

       HIME_ERR_COREDUMP
	      Option for debugging.

       HIME_IM_CLIENT_NO_AUTO_EXEC
	      Disable auto-evoke in hime protocol.

       HIME_OUTPUT_FILTER
	      Assign output filter to process data before the IM server send them to clients.

       HIME_TABLE_DIR
	      Assign directory for IM tables other then /usr/share/hime/table.

SEE ALSO

       hime-setup(1), cin2gtab(1), hime-phoa2d(1), hime-juyin-learn(1), hime-message(1)

AUTHORS

       Edward Der-Hua Liu
	      Wrote hime and associated tools.

       Friend of Chanjei IM, Malaysia <www.chinesecj.com>
	      Author of original Chanjei IM version 5 table.

       Dayi Co., Ltd. <http://www.dayi.com>
	      Author of Dayi IM.

HIME 0.8							    2 FEB 2008								   HIME(1)