Uim is a multilingual input method library, whose goal is to be a flexible development platform and useful user environment for input methods of all languages.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux


fcitx is described as 'Fcitx ['fa?t?ks] is a input method framework with extension support. Currently it supports linux and Unix system, like freebsd. It has three builtin Input Method Engine, Pinyin, QuWei and Table-based input methods' and is an app. There are three alternatives to fcitx for Linux, BSD and Mac. The best fcitx alternative is UIM, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like fcitx are iBus and scim.
Uim is a multilingual input method library, whose goal is to be a flexible development platform and useful user environment for input methods of all languages.


Intelligent Input Bus. Input Method for many languages especially CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) but not only.



The Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) platform project provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for POSIX-style operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix), but also a development platform to make input method development easier.