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# strans
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strans is a small, single-user input method for Korean, Japanese, English,
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emoji, and symbols. It provides one engine for IBus, XIM, and GTK 3.
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Vietnamese Telex is also available as a compatibility mode.
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## Input modes
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| Key | Mode |
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| --- | --- |
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| `Ctrl+N` | Japanese Hiragana and Kanji conversion |
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| `Ctrl+K` | Japanese Katakana |
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| `Ctrl+S` | Korean Hangul (2-beolsik) |
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| `Ctrl+T` | English |
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| `Ctrl+V` | Vietnamese Telex |
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| `Ctrl+E` | Emoji and symbol search |
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| `Ctrl+H` | One-shot Hanja search |
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A complete Japanese reading shows its Kanji candidates with none chosen.
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`Space` chooses the first and then steps on, wrapping (`Shift+Space` steps
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back); `Up`/`Down` and `PageUp`/`PageDown` move without wrapping. An
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unmodified `1`-`9` commits that row of the current page. `Enter` and `Tab`
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commit the chosen candidate, or the reading when none is chosen, as `0`
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always does; so does typing on, or any key that ends the composition.
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Japanese consumes the confirming key; Korean and Vietnamese pass it on to
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the application. `Space` on a reading without candidates commits it and
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types nothing. `Backspace` and `Esc` on a chosen candidate go back to the
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reading. In a temporary Emoji or Hanja search, `Enter` commits the
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highlighted result and `Tab`/`Shift-Tab` wrap through the results. Leaving
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the field or clicking elsewhere commits what is pending; `Esc` cancels it.
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Hiragana mode composes a complete reading before offering Kanji candidates.
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Katakana mode does not perform Kanji conversion. Emoji and Hanja searches
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return to the previous mode after use; switching language during a search
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commits the shown query. `Ctrl+H` takes the syllable being composed as its
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query; the Hanja dictionary lists one modern Hangul syllable at a time.
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## Preedit and candidates
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| Frontend | Preedit | Candidates |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| GTK 3 and IBus | inline in the client | strans popup |
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| XIM PreeditCallbacks | inline through XIM callbacks | strans popup |
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| XIM PreeditPosition | strans popup | strans popup |
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| XIM PreeditNothing | strans popup | strans popup |
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XIM text travels as `COMPOUND_TEXT`, which carries any UTF-8. A client that
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sends `XNSpotLocation` gets the popup at that spot whatever its preedit
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style; otherwise the popup sits under the focus window, or under the client
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window when no focus window is set.
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The popup is an X11 window sized by `GDK_SCALE` on HiDPI displays, XIM is
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X11-only, and GTK popup placement converts the GTK caret to X11 root
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coordinates. There is no native Wayland popup surface or Wayland caret
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positioning. GTK and IBus clients can still use inline preedit where their
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display environment supports it.
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## Build and test
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Initialize the bundled test library, then use the pinned Docker environment
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for a reproducible build:
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```sh
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git submodule update --init
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make docker-image
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make docker-build
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```
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Build output:
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```text
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strans daemon with IBus and XIM frontends
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gtk/im-strans.so GTK 3 frontend module
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```
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Tests have three tiers:
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```sh
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make check # generated-map validation and focused unit tests
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make check-live # one IBus, GTK, XIM, and IPC daemon smoke
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make check-stress # randomized, capacity, collision, failure, and restart tests
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```
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`UNITARGS` filters only the focused C unit suite, for example
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`make check UNITARGS=hangul`. It does not select or skip live and stress
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tests. `make docker-check` rebuilds and runs all three tiers in the
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container, and `make docker-valgrind` runs the unit suite under Valgrind
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there; run `make docker-image` first after changing `Dockerfile`.
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Native Linux source builds require a C toolchain, Make, pkg-config, Python 3,
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and cmp/diff, plus development files for:
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- Plan 9 port (`9c`, `9l`, `libthread`, and `libbio`);
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- D-Bus development files;
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- XCB, XCB RandR, XCB XKB, xcb-imdkit, xkbcommon, and xkbcommon-x11;
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- Pango, PangoCairo, Cairo, and Fontconfig;
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- GTK 3, plus libibus and Xlib for the live clients;
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- Xvfb for the X11 live tests;
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- a working `C.UTF-8` locale and fonts covering Latin, CJK, and emoji.
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The package names used by the canonical Arch Linux image are listed in
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[`Dockerfile`](Dockerfile).
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## Run
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The popup uses the normal system fonts found by Pango and Fontconfig; no font
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file argument or system-wide strans installation is required. Run it directly
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from the build tree:
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```sh
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./run.sh
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# equivalently
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./strans map
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```
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`run.sh` stops every same-user process whose exact name is `strans`, starts one
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build-tree daemon in the background, and returns to the shell. It requires
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`pkill` from procps. Startup and frontend failures remain visible on the
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caller's standard error. A service supervisor should instead run
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`./strans map` directly in the foreground.
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The build does not copy or install the daemon or its data. `./strans DIR`
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opens `hira.map`, `kata.map`, `telex.map`, `kanji.dict`, `emoji.dict`, and
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`hanja.dict` from `DIR` at runtime; `run.sh` passes the tracked `map/`
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directory. Only the GTK subdirectory has install and uninstall targets.
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Pango shapes the complete string and selects glyph fallback from the system
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font set.
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The popup renderer uses Pango/PangoCairo and Cairo. When `DISPLAY` is set,
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`strans` starts its XIM worker in the same process.
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Configure clients as needed:
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```sh
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# XIM
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export XMODIFIERS=@im=strans
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# GTK 3 module
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doas make -C gtk install
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export GTK_IM_MODULE=strans
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# IBus client example
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GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus kitty
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```
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Building `gtk/im-strans.so` requires GTK development files. Installing an
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already-built, up-to-date module from this build tree does not: the install
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target first uses an explicit `GTK_MODULE_DIR`, then GTK's pkg-config
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variables, and finally the module directory reported by the GTK runtime's
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`gtk-query-immodules-3.0`. Packagers and cross builds should set
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`GTK_MODULE_DIR` explicitly. A prebuilt module must still match the target
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architecture and library ABI.
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`DESTDIR` staging is supported and deliberately skips the host module-cache
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update. A native install needs the GTK runtime query utility so it can refresh
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that cache. Remove a native installation with:
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```sh
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doas make -C gtk uninstall
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```
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strans provides its own IBus endpoint; `ibus-daemon` and fcitx are not
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required. Without `DISPLAY`, the daemon and IBus frontend still work, but XIM
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is not started and the popup is disabled.
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## Dictionary data
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After changing an input source, regenerate and verify the dictionaries:
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```sh
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map/mkemoji >map/emoji.dict
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map/mkhanja >map/hanja.dict
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make verify-map
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```
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See [`map/README`](map/README) for Hanja import and Japanese dictionary
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generation.
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## Benchmark
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`make bench` builds `bench/bench`. With the daemon stopped, `./bench.sh` starts
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one build-tree instance, warms it up, and records the workload with Linux
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`perf`. It requires `perf` and permission to profile the daemon, and writes
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`bench/perf.data`.
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## Licensing
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Third-party license notices are in [`LICENSES`](LICENSES). The repository does
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not currently declare a license for the strans source as a whole.
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