Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

[Jesse Steele]

Dear all,

I generally think this is mosty an issue of general awareness. A few 
months ago, the Ubuntu team said my idea has been noted, thank you.

Again, organizationally, Taiwanese 1. use "traditional" Chinese, same as 
Hong Kong and all markets other than China. 2. Better or worse, 
Taiwanese learned to speed-type bopomofo (zhuin/chewing) Mandarin in 
Windows and that speed-typing only works with GCIN's layout, for now... 
[wink]

In road maps, Taiwanese would love to see a GCIN option at Mandarin 
install... or... GCIN's workflow as an option for IBUS and FCITX.

With Taiwan making news recently, I want to express: Taiwan's market is 
ripe for Ubuntu, but they just don't know it exists! Typing input was 
one hurtle. But, also is just general awareness. The Ubuntu community 
and Taiwan need help knowing each other more.

As I understand, current Ubuntu users are sophisticated types like 
super-geeks, engineers, and professors. They probably provide most input 
for Ubuntu's knowledge base, but there is no reason Ubuntu can't work 
for normal Taiwanese.

I am doing my small part to get the secret out about Ubuntu and 
open-source apps at verb.ink and its YouTube Channel. I believe if 
Taiwan learns about Ubuntu, they could reach near saturation in two 
years because that's how Taiwan does things. (It went that fast with 
Facebook.) That would be a big boost for Ubuntu and open-source.

I'm here if anyone wants to ask me questions or improve my work at 
verb.ink and related projects. Thank you so much for being approachable. 
This forum is now my number one reason I prefer Ubuntu.

Jesse Steele

PS I plan to test GCIN on a few Ubuntu distros soon. EVERYONE seems 
swamped with work these days—at least good people anyway. Don't quit.


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> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 18:54:12 +0800
> From: Jesse Steele <jesse at jessesteele.com>
> To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>,
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> Thank you. I will be testing it soon. I haven't had time yet.
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> On 12/02/2016 02:35 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> On 10/25/2016 03:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote:
>>>> gcin worked in 15.10 Unity but hid under the app search fuzz, broke
>>>> as of 16.04 Unity, still broke; worked in 16.04 GNOME, but GNOME's
>>>> Chinese packages completely broke around October and have to
>>>> install that long list manually.
>>> There may be flavor specific issues. Anyway, as already said:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcin/+filebug
>> A gcin issue reported in <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1482938> has been
>> fixed now. It may or may not be relevant to the problem mentioned above.
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