<s>
The	O
Smart	B-Language
Common	I-Language
Input	I-Language
Method	I-Language
(	O
SCIM	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
platform	O
for	O
inputting	O
more	O
than	O
thirty	O
languages	O
on	O
computers	O
,	O
including	O
Chinese-Japanese-Korean	O
style	O
character	O
languages	O
(	O
CJK	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
many	O
European	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
used	O
for	O
POSIX-style	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
including	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
purposes	O
are	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
simple	O
and	O
powerful	O
common	O
interface	O
for	O
users	O
from	O
any	O
country	O
,	O
and	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
clear	O
architecture	O
for	O
programming	O
,	O
so	O
as	O
to	O
reduce	O
time	O
required	O
to	O
develop	O
individual	O
input	B-General_Concept
methods	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
act	O
as	O
a	O
unified	O
frontend	O
for	O
current	O
available	O
input	B-General_Concept
method	I-General_Concept
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bindings	B-Application
to	O
uim	B-Application
and	O
m17n	O
library	O
are	O
available	O
(	O
as	O
of	O
August	O
2007	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
act	O
as	O
a	O
language	O
engine	O
of	O
IIIMF	O
(	O
an	O
input	B-General_Concept
method	I-General_Concept
framework	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
support	O
as	O
many	O
input	B-General_Concept
method	I-General_Concept
protocols/interfaces	O
as	O
existing	O
and	O
in	O
common	O
use	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
support	O
multiple	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
(	O
Currently	O
,	O
only	O
POSIX-style	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
are	O
available	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
SCIM	O
was	O
originally	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
C++	B-Language
language	I-Language
but	O
has	O
moved	O
to	O
pure	O
C	B-Language
since	O
1.4.14	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
abstracts	O
the	O
input	B-General_Concept
method	I-General_Concept
interface	O
to	O
several	O
classes	O
and	O
attempts	O
to	O
simplify	O
the	O
classes	O
and	O
make	O
them	O
more	O
independent	O
from	O
each	O
other	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
simpler	O
and	O
more	O
independent	O
interfaces	O
,	O
developers	O
can	O
write	O
their	O
own	O
input	B-General_Concept
methods	I-General_Concept
in	O
fewer	O
lines	O
of	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SCIM	O
is	O
a	O
modularized	O
IM	O
platform	O
,	O
and	O
as	O
such	O
,	O
components	O
can	O
be	O
implemented	O
as	O
dynamically	O
loadable	O
modules	O
,	O
thus	O
can	O
be	O
loaded	O
during	O
runtime	B-Library
at	O
will	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
input	B-General_Concept
methods	I-General_Concept
written	O
for	O
SCIM	O
could	O
be	O
IMEngine	O
modules	O
,	O
and	O
users	O
can	O
use	O
such	O
IMEngine	O
modules	O
combined	O
with	O
different	O
interface	O
modules	O
(	O
FrontEnd	O
)	O
in	O
different	O
environments	O
without	O
rewrite	O
or	O
recompile	O
of	O
the	O
IMEngine	O
modules	O
,	O
reducing	O
the	O
compile	O
time	O
or	O
development	O
time	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SCIM	O
is	O
a	O
high-level	O
library	O
,	O
similar	O
to	O
XIM	B-Application
or	O
IIIMF	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
SCIM	O
claims	O
to	O
be	O
simpler	O
than	O
either	O
of	O
those	O
IM	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SCIM	O
also	O
claims	O
that	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
alongside	O
XIM	B-Application
or	O
IIIMF	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SCIM	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
extend	O
the	O
input	B-General_Concept
method	I-General_Concept
interface	O
of	O
existing	O
application	O
toolkits	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
GTK+	B-Application
,	O
Qt	B-Language
and	O
Clutter	B-Language
via	O
IMmodules	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
SKIM	O
is	O
a	O
separate	O
project	O
aimed	O
at	O
integrating	O
SCIM	O
more	O
tightly	O
into	O
the	O
K	B-Application
Desktop	I-Application
Environment	I-Application
,	O
by	O
providing	O
a	O
GUI	O
panel	O
(	O
named	O
scim-panel-kde	O
as	O
an	O
alternative	O
to	O
scim-panel-gtk	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
KConfig	O
config	O
module	O
and	O
setup	O
dialogs	O
for	O
itself	O
and	O
the	O
SCIM	O
module	O
libscim	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
t-latn-pre	O
and	O
t-latn-post	O
are	O
two	O
input	B-General_Concept
methods	I-General_Concept
that	O
provide	O
an	O
easy	O
way	O
for	O
composing	O
accented	O
characters	O
,	O
either	O
by	O
preceding	O
regular	O
characters	O
with	O
diacritic	O
marks	O
(	O
in	O
the	O
case	O
of	O
t-latn-pre	O
)	O
,	O
or	O
by	O
adding	O
the	O
marks	O
subsequently	O
(	O
in	O
the	O
case	O
of	O
t-latn-post	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
input	B-General_Concept
methods	I-General_Concept
are	O
available	O
for	O
SCIM	O
through	O
the	O
M17n	O
library	O
.	O
</s>
