I have tried today's daily built iso of 18.04.  I selected simplified
Chinese during boot. Still couldn't input Chinese.

Will try 19.10 later.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:25 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
1786...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> On 2019-07-03 02:16, Ping-Wu wrote:
> > How do I test it?  I'm interested in seeing Chinese input method
> > being able to be activated and behaving the way it is expected in a
> > LiveUSB, preferably in Ubuntu 18.04.3 iso.  Is there any pre-release
> > version of the 18.04.3 iso available?
>
> Besides verifying the test case above, and as mentioned in comment #24,
> I confirmed it on a 19.10 daily build ISO. You can do the same.
>
> I'm not aware of any pre-release ISOs, but most likely it will work also
> on 18.04.3.
>
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> Title:
>   Default IBus input method ignored in live session
>
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Bionic:
>   Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>   [Impact]
>
>   If you
>
>   * start your computer with a bootable USB stick or DVD with the
>     18.04.2 desktop ISO
>
>   * wait until Ubiquity's welcome screen shows up (only possible on
>     systems with legacy BIOS; bug #1766047)
>
>   * select a language which requires an input method for typing
>
>   * click the "Try Ubuntu" button
>
>   no IBus method is made easily available via the input source indicator
>   in the session you enter. If you for instance select zh_CN as language
>   and "Try Ubuntu", you would expect to enter a session with the
>   "Intelligent Pinyin" method included among the available input
>   sources.
>
>   The proposed fix should ensure that an IBus method is always available
>   in "live sessions" in languages which are prepared for it.
>
>   [Test Case]
>
>   1. Install ibus-libpinyin and make sure that "Intelligent Pinyin" is
>      not included among your available input sources.
>
>   2. Generate the Chinese locale:
>
>      sudo locale-gen zh_CN.UTF-8
>
>   3. Add to ~/.profile this line:
>
>      export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
>
>   4. Remove the gnome-settings-daemon stamp file:
>
>      rm ~/.local/share/gnome-settings-daemon/input-sources-converted
>
>   5. Log out and log in again.
>
>   => Find that the "Intelligent Pinyin" method was not added (since the
>   sources already in the list prevented it from being added).
>
>   6. Install gnome-settings-daemon from bionic-proposed.
>
>   7. Repeat step 4 and 5.
>
>   => Find that the "Intelligent Pinyin" method was added.
>
>   [Regression Potential]
>
>   The proposed upload includes a small change which specifically
>   addresses the issue as described above. I find that the risk for
>   adverse side effects is low.
>
>   [Original description]
>
>   Ubuntu 18.10 iso (2018.8.7), select Simplified Chinese for booting, can't
>   input Chinese character. From Settings -> Regions and Languages, selected
>   Intelligent Pinyin, also could not input Chinese.
>
>   ---
>
>   18.10 镜像(2018.8.7)选择简体中文开机,无法输入中文。由 Settings -> Regions and
>   Languages,选择 智能拼音,也无法输入中文。
>
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