QUOTE(Eiraku @ Mar 9 2011, 01:00 PM)
Yes, it's external enough to require you to have to cut and paste output from the application to SMS, emails etc. Simply put, you have to start emacs up, switch to Chinese mode, type, cut and paste into whatever program you need.
It's not really easy to use this way but it completely leaves the virtual keyboard alone (auto correct and capitalisation still work fine). Even the hardware keyboard mods do not effect the system stability in any way.
But really, having to start another program, write, cut paste is really mafan, especially if you write a lot in another language. Even I used it to write small snippets of text in Japanese only, daily, heavy use might have killed me lol.
But to Emacs' credit, it's not meant to be an interpreter app. Supposedly, you can call people, SMS and even surf the web with it, so you can't blame it for being slightly un-user friendly.
I was hoping that MSCIM would be stable already by now (allowing quick switching of input without disabling auto-correct and capitalisation), but it seems this isn't the case.
thx for the detail explanation, I decide this method is more safer for me. I will try it may be tonight after a full backup before install.
mscim suppose to be stable, I have been using it for 3 months!! all of a sudden, it start to pop up internal error!! For a beginner to face flashing phone only using 3 months

well, luckily nothing wrong to my phone, now working fine only without mscim (after flashing 3 times to know mcsim is the culprit, maybe flashing emmc will solve it but I got data inside not yet backup)
I suspect is hermes causing the problem, after less than 24 hours install it, I got this problem