Comment 15 for bug 1756205

I downloaded 20183026 daily built and am very pleased to report that the
Chinese input problem seems to have been solved!!! Thanks so much Gunnar!

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> On 2018-03-25 10:39, Ping-Wu wrote:
> > BTW, do you have any idea when this fix will go into the daily
> > built? Really look forward to testing it!
>
> In a couple of days, I'd guess.
>
> > Also, when I click on the "manage installed language" dialog bar, I
> > would be prompted to install "kde-config-fcitx". This is unnecessary
> > and clearly is a bug and should be removed.
>
> That package is needed for Kubuntu, and is installed only if the kio
> package was installed previously, which it is not on standard Ubuntu
> AFAIK. Not a bug.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756205
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> Title:
> Can't input Chinese characters in daily built
>
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Daily Built 2018-03-08.
>
> As reported in the Ubuntu Chinese forum (in Chinese):
>
> http://forum.ubuntu.com.cn/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=486823
>
> users cannot input Chinese characters.
>
> It appears the daily built uses sunpinyin as the default Chinese input
> method. But sunpinyin is not included in the iso.
>
> Sunpinyin has not been maintained for at least a couple of years;
> several problems have been reported associated therewith but remain
> unsolved, and it doesn't appear that the problems will be solved any
> time soon.
>
> Ibus-libpinyin has been working very smoothly inside Bionic. Its
> frequency table regarding single words can be improved, but it works
> very well for phrases.
>
> I suggest we change the default Chinese input method from sunpinyin to
> libpinyin (i.e., intelligent pinyin).
>
> This is an urgent matter.
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