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The Chewing (酷音) input method is an intelligent Zhuyin input method. It is one of the most popular input methods among Traditional Chinese Unix users. Chewing was a project established by Lu-Chuan Kung (龔律全) and (Jeremy Kang-Pen Chen (陳康本) ), sponsored by (Tsan-sheng Hsu (徐讚昇) ) from Academia Sinica.〔(About Chewing (In Chinese) )〕 Their research result (the program) was published under the GPL. The Chewing core team extended their work and actively maintains the project. == Motivation == Chewing was inspired by other proprietary intelligent Zhuyin input methods under Microsoft Windows, namely, Wang-Xin (忘形) by Eten, Microsoft New Zhuyin (微軟新注音), and Nature Zhuyin (自然注音). Since Zhuyin-based input methods are the most popular among computer users who read and write Traditional Chinese, an intelligent Zhuyin method is a necessity for Unix-like systems in order to attract more users. There was a similar input method, bimsphone (詞音), which was bundled in XCIN. However, it does not have a convenient API for further development. The original chewing (as developed by Kung and Chen) is no longer maintained, only works with XIM, and doesn't have a generic API for input frameworks.〔(Chewing Project presentation slides (In Chinese) )〕 Jim Huang, et al. formed the Chewing core team and extended Gong and Chen's work. Thus the chewing core team renamed the project as "new" chewing (新酷音) to differentiate their work from the original. Nevertheless, the English name has remained "chewing". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chewing (Input Method)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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