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Bug 684644 - Can't add Chinese input method if the interface is in Chinese
Can't add Chinese input method if the interface is in Chinese
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 684540
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Region & Language
3.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-23 02:16 UTC by Mathieu Bridon
Modified: 2012-09-23 19:04 UTC
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Description Mathieu Bridon 2012-09-23 02:16:45 UTC 
I just created a new user and set her interface to be displayed in Chinese.

Then I started her session, and went to the "Region & Language" panel to add a Chinese input method.

I searched for "chinese", and I didn't get the expected result.

No Pinyin, no Quick3, no Cangjie,...

I only got the "Chinese" keyboard layout, which is really the US layout (is that really useful by the way?)

But if I set back the session to English, then I can find the Chinese input methods in G-C-C.

I think the input method names get translated, and so I'd have to search for their name in Chinese, which I can't do before adding at least one Chinese input method...
Comment 1 Mathieu Bridon 2012-09-23 02:27:50 UTC 
So, I set the UI back to English, loggued outm logged in, and added the Chinese input method I wanted by searching for "chinese",

Then I set the UI back to Chinese, logged out and logged in again.

And as I suspected, the name of the input methods are translated, so I would need to search for "chinese" in Chinese indeed.

How do we solve the chicken and egg problem?

One thing I just saw is that the rest of the input sources (keyboard layouts I guess?) are all written in English here, not in Chinese. Only the input methods from IBus seem to be translated to Chinese.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-09-23 12:37:37 UTC 
> so I would need to search for "chinese" in Chinese indeed.

Why would you want a chinese input method if you don't understand chinese? :)
Comment 3 Mathieu Bridon 2012-09-23 14:42:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> > so I would need to search for "chinese" in Chinese indeed.
> 
> Why would you want a chinese input method if you don't understand chinese? :)

That's not the problem.

How do I type « Chinese » in Chinese **before** having a Chinese input method configured?
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-23 19:04:07 UTC 
Either you'd type it in English (bug 684540), or you'd be able to browse languages in a different manner (bug 684565). I'll close this as a dupe of bug 684540 but both are equally valid.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 684540 ***