Questions tagged [chinese]
Questions relating to the Chinese language and fonts
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Installing SOGOU 搜狗拼音
SOGOU (搜狗) is a popular Chinese input software. For Ubuntu 14.04, they worked with the team of Ubuntu Kylin to create a linux version of their software.
It's based on FCITX input software, which is ...
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How do I change the default Chinese font?
I've installed two Chinese fonts from the repos: UMing and UKai. I like better how UKai looks, but the default font picked by Ubuntu (when selecting a non-Chinese font) is UMing. For example, my ...
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Type chinese PinYin with tones
I am trying to write chinese characters and pinyin with indicated tones.
Setting up chinese Characters with pinyin input was failry easy. Just adding Chinese as a language and then Chinese - ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Chinese (simplified) pinyin input support
There are well over a decade's worth of mutually incompatible instructions for setting up basic pinyin input on previous versions of Ubuntu. People make lots of claims about needing to do now obsolete ...
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How to install Chinese input in English Ubuntu
I haven't found the right setting for Chinese input, IBus pinyin.
If I want to write "ni hao" the correct alternative shows up after writing "nih" (as second alternative). But if I continue writing "...
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ubuntu install "sogou pinyin" doesn't work
after successful downloading the sogou pinyin deb I install by double click and it shows sucessfully installed but cannot start. My system is ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
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Chinese fonts are not visible in programs installed in Wine
I have installed Wine on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. When I run any program containing Chinese fonts, it shows some box type structure.
Tried:
update, installing Chinese fonts in Ubuntu, adding Chinese language ...
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install Chinese(and other utf-8) fonts for Xvfb?
I have installed these packages:
apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox
But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:
How to install ...
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GNOME application doesn't use the system input method
I set my system input method to gcin with im-switcher.
But when I use some GNOME based application, such as gedit and gnome-terminal, my default input method is still Simple(i.e. I can type only ...
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Ubuntu display Chinese Characters - Encoding Issue
I'm running a Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit. I'm facing a strange problem displaying Chinese characters in terminal, files, MySQL terminal etc. The Chinese characters are displaying as ?????. After some ...
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FCITX pinyin input menu doesnt appear
I ham running fcitx in 15.04 XFCE Ubuntu (XUbuntu) and my fcitx daemon is working fine for both Chewing and Google Pinyin input, however the menu with pinyin entries never shows up when I type. So for ...
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how to display chinese character in txt file on ubuntu 16.04
I tried some methods to fix this issue,but no lucky.I can't find the auto-detected item to configure it.So what I should do next,I need help,and thanks a lot!
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Nautilus Folders Turned Chinese
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME Shell 3.4. I've been having problems with language settings being changed to Chinese (i.imgur.com/GR2rn.png). I have fixed the problem of menus and ...
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FCITX and Cedilla Conflicting Configurations
I'm a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker, and, as such, I'm in need of the ç, not ć — which I believe is used in way less popular languages, so why is it the default??? —, so, in the past, I've ...
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IBS Chinese pinyin input candidates appear at bottom of screen
So I got ibs pinyin working on Ubuntu, but the input candidates appear at the bottom of my screen not near the cursor where they're supposed to.
This is quite annoying as you gotta look in two ...
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