Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

2016-12-06 Thread Xen
JMZ schreef op 06-12-2016 18:14: On 12/06/2016 10:21 AM, Jesse Steele wrote: As I understand, current Ubuntu users are sophisticated types like super-geeks, engineers, and professors. They probably provide most input for Ubuntu's knowledge base, but there is no reason Ubuntu can't work for

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

2016-12-06 Thread JMZ
On 12/06/2016 10:21 AM, Jesse Steele wrote: As I understand, current Ubuntu users are sophisticated types like super-geeks, engineers, and professors. They probably provide most input for Ubuntu's knowledge base, but there is no reason Ubuntu can't work for normal Taiwanese. This

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

2016-12-06 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Hi Jesse, On 2016-12-06 16:21, Jesse Steele wrote: In road maps, Taiwanese would love to see a GCIN option at Mandarin install... or... GCIN's workflow as an option for IBUS and FCITX. As I said, gcin is an option, even if it's not integrated in the Ubuntu desktop in the same manner as IBus

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

2016-12-06 Thread Jesse Steele
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Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-12-04 Thread Jesse Steele
Thank you. I will be testing it soon. I haven't had time yet. On 12/02/2016 02:35 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 10/25/2016 03:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote: gcin worked in 15.10 Unity but hid under the app search fuzz, broke as of 16.04 Unity,

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-12-01 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 10/25/2016 03:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote: 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

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-25 Thread Jesse Steele
/ / /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

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-25 Thread 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.

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-24 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Hi Jesse! On 2016-10-22 02:15, Jesse Steele wrote: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin order of character appearance in the input menus. - gcin doesn't install well, depending on the distro. 16.10 broke it, hence this email. - the app search

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-24 Thread JMZ
Jesse, OT question: Do users of bopomofo in word processors have the opportunity to select a range of characters iff bopomofo is ambiguous? Since txts are often abbreviated, ambiguities can be shrugged off if the context is clear enough. Academic writing is another league completely.

Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-24 Thread Jesse Steele
I am an American living in Taiwan. Chinese input is a problem that prevents Taiwanese from using Ubuntu. Two problems: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin order of character appearance in the input menus. - gcin doesn't install well, depending on