SunPinyin is a statistical language model based Chinese input method, which was firstly developed by Sun Beijing Globalization team, and opensource'd to community with opensolaris project, with LGPLv2 and CDDL dual-licenses.

SunPinyin had been ported to various input method platforms and operating systems. The 2.0 release currently supports iBus, XIM, and Mac OS X.

News:

Notes to packagers of 2.0.3

If you're trying to set an LDFLAGS or any other build flags, make sure it's correct! There is a minor issue when dealing with external flags when they're incorrect.

Or you can apply this patch to the build script.

SunPinyin 2.0.3 Released

2.0.3 release is containing a lot of major fix compare to last release. User should update to this release as soon as possible. It fixed many inconveniet bugs. Changes compare to 2.0.2 are described below:

Build:

• CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS are recongnized.
• Scons scripts now will remember the configuration arguments in configure.conf.
• Ported to ARMEL architecture.
• Able to build on FreeBSD.

libsunpinyin:

• New LOGO!
• History cache focus more on recent commits.
• Supports --libdir and --libdatadir as configuration arguments.
• Hunpin support. (Contributed by Hanjie Xu)
• Fixed weird behavior of history with a single character.
• Fixed a potential issue for candidate ranking.

ibus-sunpinyin:

• Supports --libdir, --datadir, --execdir as configuration arguments.
• Alt+num key as the candidate delete key for ibus-sunpinyin.
• Able to build on IBus-1.4

xsunpinyin:

• Synchronized the version between xsunpinyin and libsunpinyin project.
• Fixed startup crash with empty directory.
• Fixed position problem on multi-screen.
• Fixed crash on exit, which caused history information lost.
• Refact UI system
• Added skin support
• Fixed text overbound when pinyin are too long.
• Fixed ignorance of ShuangPin setting.
• Fixed weird behavior of fast switch to english. ( Issue 213 ).

scim-sunpinyin:

• Add legacy support for scim (Thanks to liangguo)

FIT (Fun Input Toy)和SunPinyin展开全面合作

FIT和SunPinyin社区决定长期合作，联手制作下一个版本的FIT中文输入法。在合作中，FIT将使用SunPinyin的核心组件作为FIT的拼音输入引擎，完全替换掉旧版的fitx拼音引擎。新的拼音引擎将应用在FIT的Mac版、iPhone版和即将推出的iPad版。

对SunPinyin社区来说，SunPinyin的Mac版本将不会作为社区的工作重心，从而将更多的将精力集中到引擎、算法本身的改进中去，并全力协同FIT整合sunpinyin的输入引擎。FIT团队也会积极参与到引擎的改进和完善中，并将会负责SunPinyin-for-Mac的用户支持工作。SunPinyin-for-Mac依然遵循CDDL+LGPLv2.1，合作并不会妨碍任何有兴趣改进/完善它的朋友，贡献自己的努力。

另见FIT官方网站的声明。