"Invalid UTF-8" in Chinese input

Question

I had no trouble installing Chinese in 14.04.1, with Ibus-pinyin and an Arphic font. When I try to input Chinese into a text, I can choose the characters, but what it inserts into the file is a "[Invalid UTF-8]" for each character. I understand there was an analogous problem with login in Oneiric, but nothing mentioned there seems pertinent. How do I get rid of this nuisance? I an a newbie,

Answer 1

Got a fix suggested by pinyinjoe .

The ibus-pinyin package is broken and should be replaced by the ibus-libpinyin package:

sudo apt-get remove ibus-pinyin
sudo apt-get install ibus-libpinyin

Answer 2

[Invalid UTF-8]this is what I got, and I go back to the pinying 拼 icon at the top , then select preference, at the "General", toggle whatever setting.. close it, come back to my typing space, at the cursor, you'll be asked to select full/half width, select half and you are done.... I'm not good at Linux but this is how I got around with it..I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop.. (I find that choosing full/half with at preference is of no use to this problem).

Answer 3

sudo apt-get install language-selector-gnome
ibus-daemon -drx

No idea why it works :-)

在这里找到的：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23873061/cant-input-chinese-in-pinyin-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04-from-12-04

Answer 4

Hit the same error on Fedora 29. Fixed it by disabling/unchecking 'Use custom phrases' in Preference->Dictionary.