Control: reassign -1 ibus-pinyin Control: tag -1 - patch newcomer l10n 2026년 1월 12일 (월) AM 1:15, Vik!ngSail <[email protected]>님이 작성: > > Package: ibus > Version: 1.5.32-2 > Severity: important > Tags: patch newcomer l10n > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Dear Maintainer, > A long deprecated (and not-working) package "ibus-pinyin" is still being > used as the default Pinyin Input Method. This renders ibus unable to output > correct UTF-8 encoding for Chinese Simplified characters out-of-the-box. As > the > user has to manually remove ibus-pinyin and install a working alternative > (often suggesed: ibus-libpinyin).
I am not sure what the "default Pinyin Input Method" implies. Do you mean the default Debian installation? I doubt that, as ibus-pinyin has zero reverse dependency. > Using ibus-pinyin will result in [INVALID UTF-8] being put out in any > input field. this is due to the ibus-pinyin package has been unmaintained for > 16 years. The encoding does not meet modern UTF-8 standards. > > Here is what a user needs to do in a fresh install: > 1. apt remove ibus-pinyin && apt install ibus-libpinyin > 2. restart the desktop, > 3. open Settings - Keyboard - Input Sources, add Chinese (Intelligent > Pinyin) as a new keyboard, > 4. open Input Method, choose ibus. > > I would suggest replacing ibus-pinyin with ibus-libpinyin. As stated on > the > package page for ibus-pinyin:"This pinyin input method is deprecated; new > users > should switch to > ibus-libpinyin, which is a contemporary implementation of pinyin input method. > " Anyhow, the default installation is not controlled by ibus package. You can request removal of ibus-pinyin package, or request changing dependencies of the task-chinese-* packages if it's really the default installation issue. > > Thanks and best regards, > V > >
