Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

[Jesse Steele]

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    /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. /


Yes, connected to Internet, selecting it, those packages almost always 
do NOT install. I will file bug rep.

    /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. /


Thank you for noting gcin's pref. In your note, please remember:
1. gcin may get used a lot more in the future
2. I may write an install script for gcin myself, currently it's a 
painful two-time login headache.
3. Native in the options would be nice, even if not default.
4. I hypothesize being able to use gcin's flow (ported to another is ok) 
is a deal-breaker/deal-maker. With it, Taiwan could literally saturate 
with Ubuntu in 1.5 years and literally make headlines with how fast it 
happens. You read my prediction of the Taiwan market here first ;-)
Love you all.

On 10/25/2016 09:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 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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