Setup Emacs Double Pinyin With pyim And rime

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The integration of pyim and rime is relatively experimental and the setup process is not straight-forward, hence I wrote this blog.

Install rime (Debian 10)

sudo apt-get install fcitx fcitx-rime
sudo apt-get install librime-bin librime-dev librime1

Emacs Settings

Build liberime

git clone --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/liberime/liberime.git

then build it following its README

Build Emacs With Dynamic Module Support

To load the module built above, Emacs needs to be built with dynamic module support. 

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs.git
cd emacs
./configure --with-modules
make
sudo make install

pyim Configuration

;;; zh-cn input method pyim/rime
(require 'pyim)
(require 'posframe)
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/rws/hack/lisp/liberime/build/") ;; set to wherever liberime.so is built, see the above section
(require 'liberime)

(setq default-input-method "pyim")
(setq pyim-page-tooltip 'posframe)
(setq pyim-page-length 9)

(liberime-start "/usr/share/rime-data/"
                (file-truename "~/.emacs.d/pyim/rime/"))
(liberime-select-schema "double_pinyin_mspy")
(setq pyim-default-scheme 'rime-microsoft-shuangpin)

Note: please see pyim’s README for more options

Simplified Chinese

However, I can only type traditional Chinese characters with the above setup.

Following rime’s wiki page, edit the corresponding double pinyin schema file: /usr/share/rime-data/double_pinyin_mspy.schema.yaml:

  • rename “simplification” to “zh_simp” and add “reset: 1” under it.
    from: 

    switches:
  - name: ascii_mode
    reset: 0
    states: [ 中文, 西文 ]
  - name: full_shape
    states: [ 半角, 全角 ]
  - name: simplification
    states: [ 漢字, 汉字 ]
  - name: ascii_punct
    states: [ 。，, ．， ]

    to: 

    switches:
  - name: ascii_mode
    reset: 0
    states: [ 中文, 西文 ]
  - name: full_shape
    states: [ 半角, 全角 ]
  - name: zh_simp
    reset: 1
    states: [ 漢字, 汉字 ]
  - name: ascii_punct
    states: [ 。，, ．， ]

  • add simplifier filter at the end of the schema file: 

    simplifier:
  option_name: zh_simp
  • save and restart Emacs, now pyim should be using simplified Chinese.