#Memo - Installing iBus-Waitzar Burmese Input Method on Ubuntu and Zawgyi

Download waitzar source to ~/src folder, or anywhere.

svn checkout http://waitzar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk ~/src/waitzar

Download scim-waitzar source to ~/src too

svn checkout http://scim-waitzar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk ~/src/scim-waitzar

you need scons to build both, if you already have, dont need this.

sudo apt-get install scons

go to ~/src/waitzar/cross_platform_library

cd ~/src/waitzar/cross_platform_library

create waitzar.pc with follow content

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: waitzar
Description: Encapsulation of the WaitZar language model & related APIs.
Version: 1.0.0
Libs: -L${libdir} -lwaitzar
Cflags: -I${includedir}/waitzar

OR you can just rename waitzar.pc.in to waitzar.pc

then type

scons

if everything is fine, do

sudo scons install

and then libwaitzar should install into system properly

then go to ibus-waitzar

cd ~/src/scim-waitzar/ibus-waitzar

then build, and install it, make sure you running iBus already.

scons

sudo scons install

then in iBus menu, Restart it.

and add Waitzar from iBus Preferences

by default its with Unicode 5.1

so update few things to support Zawgyi

sudo gedit /usr/share/ibus-waitzar/engine/engine.py

go to line 88

change ENCODING_UNICODE to ENCODING_ZAWGYI

go to line 599

change libwaitzar.encoding.unicode to libwaitzar.encoding.zawgyi

restart iBus from menu.

Cheers,