Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote:
> On 2016-10-24 13:21, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I think you misread. I select Taiwan Chinese on install, but it does
> NOT automatically install those extra packages. I agree it should.
> But, it doesn't until I go to Language settings.

If you are connected to internet when installing, and for most flavors, 
it should install the related language support packages automatically. 
In case of Ubuntu (with Unity), those packages should be installed 
automatically even without an internet connection.

If that does not work, please file a bug report and include enough 
information to make it possible for someone who investigates the issue 
to reproduce the behavior. You can file such a report to 
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+filebug> 
for now.

> gcin bug report, I'll look at that. This is what it would be: 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

> I'm wearing the "reporter" hat, just passing on what the Taiwanese
> tell me. Not my opinion. I would vote for fcitx; they don't. It's all
> about the speedy, no-looking workflow. gcin, hands-down,

Your hint about some Taiwanese users preferring gcin over Fcitx has been 
noted. Making gcin default for typing Traditional Chinese would be a big 
change and won't likely happen soon.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj