M17N is a shorthand for "Multilingualization" (M+ 17 letters + N).

This project tries to improve the support for as many languages as possible in openSUSE. It also serves as development project for packages around the topic of M17N in the openSUSE:Factory distribution. If you want to participate you can contact us individually or use our mailinglist opensuse-m17n@opensuse.org. Please report bugs to the respective bugowners as set.

Fonts belong to M17N:fonts.

In 12.2, openSUSE will bring you two excellent and modern Input Method Frameworks (IMF), one of them is fcitx, a Flexible Context-aware Input Tool with eXtension. It is default input method for locale as ko, zh_CN and zh_SG.

Fcitx supports pinyin and table input methods. thus it supports many African and Asian locales. (you can find many fcitx-table-* package with details about which locale it applies in YaST) Besides the wide coverage, fcitx is also the leader of creative features in IMF field. It by now supports Import of User Dictionaries (like create your own input tables), GNOME 3/KDE 4 native configuration module (through a GNOME extension kimpanel and a kcm-module kcm-fcitx, which is the first IMF using KCM technology!), KDE 4 integration with a plasmoid named KIMpanel or a 3rd-party application named KIMToy, English Keyboard with libpresage predition support, best 3rd-party IMs' integration like Sunpinyin/libpinyin/Googlepinyin/RIME with no-pain trans-inputing between CJK. Even can fetch words from Internet servers to power your inputs! And it ships the capability of using Skins (branding-openSUSE is good, but you still can get more from kde-look.org. There's a special section for Fcitx!)

SunPinyin is an SLM (Statistical Language Model) based input method
engine. To model the Chinese language, it use a backoff bigram and
trigram language model.

Currently, SunPinyin 2.0 is available on IBus. fcitx-sunpinyin is a wrapper around SunPinyin which enables user to use
SunPinyin with fcitx.

KIMToy is an input method frontend for KDE. It is an alternative to kimpanel plasmoid. KIMToy uses the same dbus ipc specification as kimpanel, say org.kde.impanel, so where kimpanel works, where KIMToy works.

KIMToy is a standalone application, has no dependence on plasma, so it won't make your whole desktop unstable.

KIMToy aims to provide a stable and intergrated frontend for Asian input method, such as fcitx, scim and ibus.

KIMToy makes easy for fcitx/ibus/scim users. These three input method should work out of box since KIMToy-0.2.

KIMToy is able to load sogou input method theme since KIMToy-0.4.

supported input methods
ibus >= 1.3.0
fcitx >= 4.0
scim >= 1.4.9

Intelligent phonetic input method library for traditional Chinese.

OpenCC is a project aims at Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese Conversion and vice versa. it provides high-quality word databases, conversion tools and libraries(libopencc) on Windows/OSX/Linux systems.
It has been selected by many mainstream open source Chinese IME for such purpose, eg: ibus-pinyin/fcitx/libgooglepinyin and etc.
It can strictly distiguish one to many word conversion situation, be compatible of old and abnormal words and dynamical conversion. It supports zh_CN/zh_TW/zh_HK abnormal words' intersectional conversions, results optimization by using interpretations split and minimum split principle, word database extensions, and can be called using many programming languages, or by CLI/GUI.
code.google.com/p/opencc

Intelligent Pinyin input module for Smart Chinese/Common Input Method
platform

This repository is a *fonts only* repository. The packages here are named according to the openSUSE font packaging guideline:

See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts

The command `osc meta prj` must list both arch i586 and arch x86_64 in each repository, because we layer this project as `openSUSE.org:M17N:fonts` in `ibs:Documentation:Tools`, where all packages will fail for i586, if i586 is missing here. Building packages as noarch does not change this issue, unfortunately.

This is an internal package that is used to create the patterns as part
of the installation source setup. Installation of this package does
not make sense.

This particular package contains the Font patterns.

The latest stable releases of Mono/.NET framework related libraries.

SunPinyin is an SLM (Statistical Language Model) based input method
engine. To model the Chinese language, it use a backoff bigram and
trigram language model.

Currently, SunPinyin 2.0 is available on IBus. fcitx-sunpinyin is a wrapper around SunPinyin which enables user to use
SunPinyin with fcitx.

KIMToy is an input method frontend for KDE. It is an alternative to kimpanel plasmoid. KIMToy uses the same dbus ipc specification as kimpanel, say org.kde.impanel, so where kimpanel works, where KIMToy works.

KIMToy is a standalone application, has no dependence on plasma, so it won't make your whole desktop unstable.

KIMToy aims to provide a stable and intergrated frontend for Asian input method, such as fcitx, scim and ibus.

KIMToy makes easy for fcitx/ibus/scim users. These three input method should work out of box since KIMToy-0.2.

KIMToy is able to load sogou input method theme since KIMToy-0.4.

supported input methods
ibus >= 1.3.0
fcitx >= 4.0
scim >= 1.4.9

Using bézier splines an artist can easily draw curves with the same slope on either side of an on-curve point. Spiros, on the other hand, are based on clothoid splines which make it easy to maintain constant curvature as well as constant slope. Such curves will simply look nicer.

Raph Levien's spiro splines only use on-curve points and so are easier to use and more intuitive to the artist.

This library will take an array of spiro control points and convert them into a series of bézier splines which can then be used in the myriad of ways the world has come to use béziers.

OpenCC is a project aims at Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese Conversion and vice versa. it provides high-quality word databases, conversion tools and libraries(libopencc) on Windows/OSX/Linux systems.
It has been selected by many mainstream open source Chinese IME for such purpose, eg: ibus-pinyin/fcitx/libgooglepinyin and etc.
It can strictly distiguish one to many word conversion situation, be compatible of old and abnormal words and dynamical conversion. It supports zh_CN/zh_TW/zh_HK abnormal words' intersectional conversions, results optimization by using interpretations split and minimum split principle, word database extensions, and can be called using many programming languages, or by CLI/GUI.
code.google.com/p/opencc

Pinta is a drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is
to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

Intelligent Pinyin input module for Smart Chinese/Common Input Method
platform

Qt input module plugin for SCIM

SuitesSparse is a single standard c library archive that contains all packages Professor Tim Davis has authored or co-authored aiming at Sparse Linear Systems. it includes: AMD, BTF, CAMD, CCOLAMD, COLAMD, CHOLMOD, CXSparse, KLU, LDL, UMFPACK, RBio, UFconfig, SPQR.
On Linux, we use it on Gegl and Science Applications.

[IT CAN NOT GO BEYOND TWITTER 3200 LIMIT, SO USE IT REGULARLY, PDF IS IN YOUR HOME DIRECTORY]
tweets2pdf is an opensource lightweight python application to back up your twitter timeline, favorates, retweets, others' timelines and favorites, generally every type of tweet, into an elegent book formated properly in PDF. It requires python imaging and reportlab module, at first use you have to oauth it(unluckily for Chinese still no proxy added). It can also back up your replies to your friends(although still unluckily not in thread or conversation mode). Future works may forcus on import feature so you can import your previous backups in csv, json, html, xml or sql formats you kept from other backup utilities and generate a book covers your full twitter life. It looks like a local fork of tweetbook.in or other similar on line services, but we're actually the first based on time! And we support tweets in other character encodings, because the author @levin108 himself is not a native speaker either. Any artwork or code support will be greatly appreciated.

SunPinyin is an SLM (Statistical Language Model) based input method
engine. To model the Chinese language, it use a backoff bigram and
trigram language model.

Currently, SunPinyin 2.0 is available on IBus. fcitx-sunpinyin is a wrapper around SunPinyin which enables user to use
SunPinyin with fcitx.

KIMToy is an input method frontend for KDE. It is an alternative to kimpanel plasmoid. KIMToy uses the same dbus ipc specification as kimpanel, say org.kde.impanel, so where kimpanel works, where KIMToy works.

KIMToy is a standalone application, has no dependence on plasma, so it won't make your whole desktop unstable.

KIMToy aims to provide a stable and intergrated frontend for Asian input method, such as fcitx, scim and ibus.

KIMToy makes easy for fcitx/ibus/scim users. These three input method should work out of box since KIMToy-0.2.

KIMToy is able to load sogou input method theme since KIMToy-0.4.

supported input methods
ibus >= 1.3.0
fcitx >= 4.0
scim >= 1.4.9