Ibus input method on RHEL not producing correct non-English characters
Hello,
I have a recently installed (close to vanilla/stock) RHEL 7.4 system, and I used its built in GNOME `Settings` -> `Region & Language` -> `Input Sources` GUI to add the Chinese Intelligent Bopomofo (pinyin) input method. I was able to switch to said input method (which appears to be based on Ibus), but typing with it outputs the literal English character letters rather than the Chinese characters (in this case, the phonetic symbols) that are supposed to be mapped to those keys. It's also strange because the input method actually shows me candidate characters to choose from, so it does recognise what I'm typing, but when I select a character it outputs the literal series of English characters associated with my keystrokes..... How do I troubleshoot this? Thank you. |
Firstly, did you install the Chinese support package?
yum groupinstall "Chinese Support" Then you need to go to the menu for System - Preferences - Input (or something like that) Select "ibus" and click on "Input method preferences" to give more details. This advice may need some updating: I know that "yum" has been replaced by something else, and I can't remember what! |
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Running `yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"` did not give any results, how do I look for that package group? Maybe it's under another name? BTW, I used `yum search Chinese` and looked at all the results. Looks like I've installed all the relevant packages anyway... I've uploaded a GIF demonstrating this strange behaviour, please check it out: https://imgur.com/a/kzL1h What else can I try, thanks!! |
It may be that SL has followed Fedora and you now need
yum groupinstall traditional-chinese-support The imgur site doesn't work on my computer, so I couldn't see your GIF. |
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https://lut.im/t7iJHvJDuo/D0zGITYOnCIasWMh.gif Hopefully you can see it this time? Thanks for your help! |
The old support package was never listed by "yum grouplist", so perhaps the new one isn't! Have you actually tried "yum groupinstall traditional-chinese-support"?
I still can't see the gif: none of those fancy sites ever work for me, although I can see images posted at this one. |
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I'm out of ideas here, I'm sorry to say. This might be a Scientific Linux problem, although at the CentOS forum, some people say they have problems with ibus and are using fcitx
https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Fcitx |
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