NAME

       ucimf - unicode console input method framework

DESCRIPTION

       ucimf is an input method framework designed for Linux unicode console.

FEATURE

        • Support UTF-8
        • Support OpenVanilla Modules
        • Support PCF, TrueType Font
        • Provide OverSpot style compose window
        • Provide C/C++ API

BOOT PARAMETERS

       Framebuffer mode is needed.

       You  can  add  "vga=XXX"  to LILO, GRUB, or other bootloaders to let the kernel start with
       proper framebuffer mode automatically.
       vga=785  (640x480, 16 ), vga=788  (800x600,  16  ),  vga=791   (1024x768,  16  ),  vga=794
       (1280x1024, 16 )

USAGE

       ucimf  needs  to  run  under  an UTF-8 consle environment, please use locale -a to see the
       UTF-8 locales that your system is supported and use command like export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8
       to set up the locale.

       To  start  ucimf  with  FbTerm,  prefer  to install fbterm-ucimf package and run fbterm -i
       fbterm_ucimf, or see ucimf_start(1) as an not-recommended alternate.

       When the user  is  running  an  FbTerm,  key  combination  Ctrl+Space  is  the  switch  of
       enable/disable  the  input  method,  Ctrl+ShiftLeft  to  switch  to next input method, and
       Ctrl+ShiftRight to switch to next input method framework.
       For jfbterm, F12 is the switch of enable/disable the input method, F11 to switch  to  next
       input method, and F10 to next input method framework.

       If  the  user  wishes  to  use  Ctrl+Space  and  Ctrl+ShiftLeft  under jfbterm, please use
       ucimf_keyboard, which maps Ctrl+Space to F12, and Ctrl+ShiftLeft to F11.

TABLE MANAGEMENT

       ucimf use standard *.cin files directly to manage its input method tables, per-user  input
       method tables is put in
       ~/.openvanilla/OVIMGeneric/.

       Installing or removing a table is simply copy or remove a file in that directory.

       The  order  of loading table is managed by the name of the table files, for exaple you can
       name your tables like this:
       01_xxx.cin, 02_xyz.cin, 03_aaa.cin, ...
       ucimf will follow this order while loading input method tables.

SHELL ENVIRONMENT

       LC_CTYPE - use UTF-8 as to recogize characters. For example:
       export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8

       OVMODULE_DIR - to customize OpenVanilla modules location at run-time.  For example:
       export OVMODULE_DIR=/usr/lib/openvanilla/

SEE ALSO

       ucimf_start(1), ucimf_keyboard(1), ucimf.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       libucimf  was  written  by  Chun-Yu  Lee  (Mat)  <MatLinuxer2@gmail.com>  and  Jim   Huang
       <jserv.tw@gmail.com>.

       This  manual  page was written by Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>, for the Debian project
       (and may be used by others).

                                         January 29, 2010                                UCIMF(1)