Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Jesse!

On 2016-10-22 02:15, Jesse Steele wrote:
> 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with
>    the gcin order of character appearance in the input menus.
>  - gcin doesn't install well, depending on the distro. 16.10 broke it,
>    hence this email.
>  - the app search fuzzy overlay in Unity hides the gcin menu selector
>  - fix: have fcitx adopt a native option that clones gcin's speed-typing
>    order (exactly) for Taiwan, or make gcin native with fcitx as an
>    installed second option.

There are currently two IM frameworks which are integrated with the 
Ubuntu desktop: IBus and Fcitx. The latter is the default framework for 
CJKV languages in 16.04+.

It should be possible to use other IM frameworks, including gcin. If 
gcin is broken, can you please elaborate (preferably in a bug report) on 
what the problem is.

I leave it to people who speak Chinese to comment on the claimed 
preferences of Taiwanese users. (I thought that Fcitx was a decent 
option also for Taiwan Chinese.)

> 2. Taiwan Chinese language packs don't install until visiting the
> Language settings, after install.
> These are the packages:
>
> fcitx fcitx-ui-qimpanel libreoffice-l10n-en-za fcitx-table-cangjie
> language-pack-zh-hant fonts-arphic-uming libreoffice-help-zh-tw
> libreoffice-l10n-zh-tw thunderbird-locale-en-gb fcitx-chewing
> fcitx-pinyin mythes-en-au fonts-arphic-ukai thunderbird-locale-zh-hant
> libreoffice-help-en-gb thunderbird-locale-zh-tw libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
> language-pack-gnome-zh-hant firefox-locale-zh-hant hunspell-en-ca
>
> ...Sure would be nice if choosing Taiwan's Chinese would include these
> on install.

The Taiwan Chinese language support is included on an Ubuntu install if 
you in the installer select Traditional Chinese as the language. If you 
don't, yes, you need to install them via Language Support. Isn't that a 
reasonable way to handle it?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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