https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024201
--- Comment #3 from Mike FABIAN mfabian@redhat.com --- Created attachment 817506 --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=817506&action=edit ubuntu-12.10-left-ubuntu-13.10-right.png
Ubuntu does not seem to support input methods during the installation either.
The left side of this screenshot is from the installation of ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso, the right side from the installation of ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso.
The screen during the installation where the real user name can be entered is shown in both screen shots. That is the only place where I can imagine an input method might have some use during the installation. For example a Japanese user could write his name correctly written in Japanes characters into the field for the "real name" (not the login name).
One can see that in ubuntu 12.10, there were 2 keyboard icons on the top, one of them is for ibus. Right clicking that one can show the “about” message of ibus and also open the setup tool and add input methods. Only 2 Chinese input methods are selectable, one of them is “Pinyin”. But even after selecting that and clicking the right mouse button on the name entry field and selecting
Input Methods -> IBus (Intelligent input Bus)
from the context menu, Chinese input still does not work. Restarting ibus (from the context menu of the keyboard icon in the panel at the top) does not help either.
In ubuntu 13.10, there is no keyboard icon at the top, ibus seems not to be running at all. One can still open the context menu of the name entry field, but selecting ibus there of course does not achieve anything.
So this looks like Ubuntu does not support input methods during the installation either at the moment.
I am not sure whether the running ibus in 12.10 was a failed attempt to use input methods during the installation or an error.
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