Chinese input method not supported on linux xorg desktop

[electricface]

ibus，fcitx

[afocus]

theme fonts do not support Chinese

[andydotxyz]

Can you please try specifying the path to a Chinese TTF file in the FYNE_FONT environment variable?
This should correct the display of the characters, but I am not certain if it requires additional work for input support.
We will be able to make a better user experience by adding some fyne_config app in the future where fonts could be selected visually or language chosen etc...

Added in change 7d2d312

[electricface]

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki

[andydotxyz]

Hi, I have installed the tools you mentioned but I cannot figure how exactly to replicate what you are describing.
Is it possible to provide some more detailed steps to verify this?

Locally if I use FYNE_FONT=<a_chinese_font.ttf> fyne_demo with some chinese content it seems to work. Can you try the same and let me know if it's still broken please?

[electricface]

If you want to enter Chinese on your computer, you will need to use the Chinese input method.
The pc-type keyboard only has a to z keys, you need to enter some letters, then come out a word selection interface, and then select the text you really want to input. For example, if you use the Pinyin input method and type "shijie", you will see "世界", "时间", "事件" and other words.
Mature ui toolkits, such as qt and gtk, support Chinese input methods.

[electricface]

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/XIM/xim.html

[andydotxyz]

Ah now I understand - the font is not the issue but we need to understand the input that can come from the XIM (or similar) tool.
I think we are dependent upon this upstream issue: glfw/glfw#41

I have been able to replicate your issue, thanks for the instructions. I see now that we are processing the keystrokes rather than the combined input that should be added.

[andydotxyz]

Unfortunately we cannot address this for Milestone 1.0.
Hopefully GLFW can get the contributions necessary and we could then integrate it in a later release.

[medivh-jay]

I have the same problem， cannot intput chinese

[andydotxyz]

The upstream issue has been moved to a later release - I don't have any information about when we may be able to resolve this, sorry.

[andydotxyz]

We are upgrading GLFW to 3.3 in our next major release, but the upstream issue has been moved to 3.4, sorry. We will need to make a plan for how (and when) to better support multi-language, i18n and accessibility.

[electricface]

You can support fcitx first and then ibus.

[mei-rune]

can fix it soon?

[andydotxyz]

Internationalisation is a very compex topic and is not scheduled for the release we are working on (or the one after that).
Currently we expect to focus on it for 3.0 which has no timeline yet.

You can track our roadmap at https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/wiki/Roadmap

[mei-rune]

@andydotxyz please update https://github.com/go-gl/glfw, it update glfw to 3.3.3 and it fix fcitx.

[andydotxyz]

This is now in release branch release/v2.0.x - can you please test ffor me @runner-mei ?
It would be great if the update fixes this issue!

[mei-rune]

@andydotxyz update to release/v2.0.x and test fail,
but I copy https://github.com/glfw/glfw/master to github.com/go-gl/glfw, override source files, and it is ok

wait for next version of glfw.

[andydotxyz]

but I copy https://github.com/glfw/glfw/master to github.com/go-gl/glfw, override source files, and it is ok

Where did you copy the files to?

[mei-rune]

@andydotxyz copy from master branch of https://github.com/glfw/glfw

I guess fix it by glfw/glfw@44b5d06

I try it later.

[andydotxyz]

@andydotxyz copy from master branch of https://github.com/glfw/glfw

Where did you copy the files to?

The commits you link to were added 13 months ago, so it seems unlikely that they are missing in the recent builds...

[mei-rune]

@andydotxyz Yes, The commits link to were added 13 months ago.

https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/3.3.3/src/x11_window.c#L775

glfw/glfw@44b5d06#diff-8c3a21538cd2ef071ab75ebf6ff2693fd14d4167d7096f6d41fd8ce2a0fe54e4L775

[andydotxyz]

So you mean that you extracted the GLFW code into vendor/github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw/gflw/src?