10:57 a.m.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409121
Bug ID: 1409121
Summary: candidate characters displayed using too small font
size.
Product: Fedora
Version: 24
Component: ibus-pinyin
Severity: medium
Assignee: pwu(a)redhat.com
Reporter: mattison.computer(a)yahoo.com
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, pwu(a)redhat.com,
shawn.p.huang(a)gmail.com
Description of problem:
1. In Gnome, when using ibus to enter simplified Chinese characters, candidate
characters are displayed using a font size that is too small to distinguish the
characters consisting of a larger number of strokes. This makes it very
difficult to find, recognize, and distinguish many characters, and to select
the correct one matching the entered pinyin. Characters with a large number of
strokes are somewhat fuzzy.
2. In Gnome, I cannot find a way to set or change the font used to display
candidate characters. It would help if I could set both the font type and the
font size. This is basically the problem reported in Bugzilla #956512. (I
find that the "AR PL UKai" (regular) font characters are significantly easier
to recognize, distinguish, and read than the "AR UL UMing", "Wen
QuanYi", Song,
Ming, and sans-serif fonts, but I cannot get the characters menus to be
displayed using "AR PL UKai" fonts.)
3. In KDE Plasma, a mix of fonts is used to display candidate characters for
the entered pinyin spelling.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
(how do I determine this?)
How reproducible:
By trying to use ibus to enter simplified Chinese characters into a Libre
Office document or a simple vi (or vim) text file.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Gnome, launch Libre Office or vi (or vim). Activate ibus for entry of
simplified Chinese characters. Try entering a complicated Chinese character by
typing in its pinyin spelling. Examples include the second character of the
names of the Xinjiang, Xizang, and Anhui provinces.
2. In KDE Plasma, try the same thing.
Actual results:
1. The characters in the menu of characters matching the entered pinyin are
small. The more complicated characters in the menu of characters matching
"jiang", "zang", and "hui" are fuzzy and difficult to
distinguish and
recognize.
2. Varying fonts are used to display the characters in the menu of characters
matching the entered pinyin.
Expected results:
1. Characters in the menu of characters matching the entered pinyin should be
displayed in a larger font so that even the complex characters can be easily
distinguished and recognized.
2. The same font should be used to display all characters in the menu of
characters matching the entered pinyin.
Additional info:
A. I also ask that ibus give me a way (in all desktop managers) of setting the
font type and size used to display characters in the menu of characters
matching the entered pinyin.
B. I am not fluent in Chinese, but am trying to learn simplified Chinese. I do
use simplified Chinese sometimes, and use ibus for entering simplified Chinese
into docs, text files, and e-mail. I am having serious problems entering the
more complicated characters because of the issues reported in this bug. It's
costing me a lot of time. Please fix!
C. I do not know if these problems also occur when entering traditional Chinese
or other eastern Asian languages (like Japanese).
D. I do not know how to capture an image of ibus's menu of characters matching
the entered pinyin. If would like an image, tell me how, and I'll try it.
Note: I do not have a portable device (e.g. iphone) that can take pictures.
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