Type Chinese

[chadwick]

Hi community members,

I freshly installed my pinephone with postmarketOS ("pmos" for short) and where able to let pmos to display traditional Chinese characters (by placing fonts inside /usr/share/fonts, through SD Card jump drive method ) in my contact list (through a vcf file from my samsung phone) and in firefox visiting some Chinese website. However, I just could not found a way to input any Chinese characters in pmos.

Back on my desktop with Linux installed, I have ibus-cangjie installed and have been using it for a very long time. As I see "Ibus" is a part of the package available in the apk application list, so I thought ibus-cangjie could be installable (or probably I could use it to input Chinese? I understand there is no Chinese virtual keyboard available either). I went through installing "git", "gcc", "m4", "automake", "gettext", and spending countless hours try to install cangjie and yet still unable to establish anything with inputing Chinese.

Is there a simple solution for inputing Chinese characters? Or am I just over doing it? Or I did not dig deep enough? Any input are all welcome.

[pinyinenjoyer]

I ran into a similar issue when trying to find a pinyin IME on postmarketOS. I ended up switching (back) to Danctnix's Arch Linux Arm and trying to use (I think) ibus-libpinyin (which I what I use on my desktop running Arch) although I can't recall if that even worked. Sorry I can't be of more help finding a solution for pmOS, however a quick glance at the Arch wiki reveals the Arch ibus package for cangjie is called "ibus-table-chinese" (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_m...od_editors) and this package does seem to be available on Arch Linux ARM: https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/any/ib...le-chinese so you might have some luck with Arch if you want to give that a try (although I've never used cangjie so YMMV).

[pinyinenjoyer]

To add on to my previous comment, I found a thread specifically about CJK IMEs on Arch: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15109. It sounds like Arch also has issues and Ubuntu Touch or OpenSUSE might be a better bet.