I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I'm trying to install simplified Chinese input and I think I've installed it correctly- I can change the keyboard input to Chinese, and when I do that, Chinese characters pop out.
However, either there is something buggy about this input method, or I'm not using it right, because for example when I try to type "lao" (as in "laoshi"), I get:
拉o
Any advice?
11 Answer
You have exactly the same problem as I had when I used iBus Pinyin. In my opinion it must be a bug of the program. (This version of iBus does not work any more.) The program (IME) erroneously only accepts 2 keystrokes per character, and when pinyin (commonly) requires more than 2 keystrokes per character, the remaining keystrokes, in your case the "o" will go into forming other characters.
I switched to sunpinyin, which also comes with iBus. That seems to have solved it for me.
fcitx is also recommended, I read.
