chinese input program

[Rick Chen]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 06:50 +1000, Graham S. Green wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is anyone aware of a good Chinese input program that allows me to type in 
> pinyin and i can then select the characters I want and it then inserts those 
> characters into Open Office or any type of document?.  Also, to be able to 
> switch between Traditional and Simplified systems and finally, be able to 
> convert from characters back to Pinyin?
> 
> Any recommendations or non-recommendations?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Graham
> 
Smart Common Input Method platform project, SCIM, which provides not
only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for *nix
(including Linux, FreeBSD and more), but also a development platform to
make input method development easier.
http://www.scim-im.org/

package is available in extra for fedora 4.