[Bug 1756205] [NEW] Can't input Chinese characters in daily built

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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.

** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: rls-bb-incoming
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Can't input Chinese characters in daily built
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756205
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