Solution for switching between lowercase and Chinese pinyin with Caps Lock in Jetbrains IDEs

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR:

Add TICapsLockLanguageSwitchCapable - true to your input method’s Info.plist[1]

Background

Last month I encountered a problem with Chinese input method (Rime, Baidu, Sogou, etc), the symptoms is that I couldn’t switch between pinyin and lowercase letters with the Caps Lock which can pressed by my little finger in Jetbrains IDEs, which has been my habit since I used macOS.

Before using third-party input methods, it works well with apple pinyin method. But the restriction of it drives me to seek any other IMEs. Rime is a good choice which fits the need of programmers but something of cloud is one of the shortcomings. But none of these is a obstacle except the defect that switching between English and Chinese. My Rime’s configuration is something like:

Configuration on arjenzhou

Solution for switching between lowercase and Chinese pinyin with Caps Lock in Jetbrains IDEs

Background