sogou pinyin
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So Sogou Pinyin as a proprietary product only offers a deb, despite being the only palatable input method for Mandarin Chinese.
Their open-source offering is described as only offering part -- seemingly the UI but not the actual IME.
I hope there is an open-source alternative out there of similar-ish quality... Because fcitx pinyin won't even come close.
The NixOS cheatsheet claims I can install .deb files through a Nix-installed dpkg, but for me this yields dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory. I haven't found reports of other NixOS users trying and running into anything similar.
Google Pinyin seems more palatable.
fixed in 1d44d7b
Reopening as Rime ended up pretty so-so, see #20.
I made an attempt to nixify Sogou Pinyin for fcitx, see NixOS/nixpkgs#53085. Hopefully with some community feedback there we'll manage to figure out a way to get this to work.
not actionable from the installing end atm so closing for now.