Questions[chinese](ubuntu)

I am relatively new to Ubuntu. I found out that I can't type Chinese in Slack but can elsewhere. Can't figure out why. Any one has the same problem? My ubuntu is 18.04

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 via Windows Subsystem for Linux using these official instructions.

I'm trying to get the Ubuntu terminal to show Chinese characters, like this:

ronald@LAPTOP-FLRIMKMQ:~$ 你你

However, that ends up looking like this:

Or, in text form:

ronald@LAPTOP-FLRIMKMQ:~$ ⍰ ⍰

How can I get it to show Chinese characters correctly?

I use Intelligent Pinyin Keyboard¹ with ibus in Ubuntu to input Chinese characters into my document.

The input-method is designed in such a way that one types the pinyin associated with a character, and then one can select it from a list of characters using numbers 0-9 on the keyboard.

Example:

Problem: in the last week, it sometimes happens that when I press a number from 0-9 the input-method does not yield a Chinese character but the digit I pressed instead. Moreover, any further keyboard input is not interpreted as an input for ibus, and merely written as-is on screen until I manually switch input-mode to pinyin again.

What I tried, in order:

• reboot
• remove the input method configuration, and add again
• reinstall ibus-pinyin

None of these seemed to help.

Q: Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

As a side note, there seems to be a *ibus-engine-libpinyin.*.crash file inside /var/crash that could be related to this problem. However, I am not sure how can I trace this bug-report online and see if it has already a solution online.

edit: my current workaround is to use fcitx instead of ibus .. though this doesn't really solve the problem in the software.

¹ Intelligent Pinyin Keyboard can be installed by the invocation of the sudo apt-get install ibus-libpinyin and can be located in All Setting-->Text Entry-->Input sources to use-->+ as Chinese (Intelligent Pinyin) (Ibus).

I have installed Wine on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. When I run any program containing Chinese fonts, it shows some box type structure.

Tried: update, installing Chinese fonts in Ubuntu, adding Chinese language under system settings. None of them worked.

I have installed these packages:

apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox

But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:

How to install proper fonts for my Xvfb?

EDIT: I have also installed xfonts-intl-chinese but it doesn't help.