Internationalization

IBus 1.5.18

  • IBus core package has provided an emoji dialog which can be launched with Ctrl+Shift+E shortcut key [1] and the emoji dialog now accepts Unicode names besides emoji annotations. E.g. “a with grave” shows À (I.E. U+00C0). [2]

  • When you open “Open Unicode choice” on the emoji category list of the emoji dialog, The Unicode name list is open.

  • In the previous releases, the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+E was not available in GNOME desktop environment but the shortcut key is now available in any desktop environmets. However to enable the shortcut key in GNOME, you have to add one more IBus input method sources besides XKB sources with gnome-control-center region utility. E.g. If you have “English (US)” and “French”, you also need to add “English (English – US (Typing Booster))” or “Other (rawcode)” or “Chinese (Intelligent Pinyin)” or else so that you apply IBus engines to “English (US)” and “French” XKB sources.

  • PageUp, PageDown, Ctrl+Shift+N, Ctrl+Shift+P keys are now available to shift pages on the Unicode name list.

To get furthermore infomation, refer https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/ibus-1-5-18-is-released/

libpinyin 2.0

libpinyin 2.0 helps Chinese Pinyin users to increase their input speed by needing fewer key presses. ibus-libpinyin with libpinyin 2.0 provides 1-3 sentence candidates and improves the dictionary. Also the libpinyin license has changed to GPLv3+.

1. The shortcut key can be customized with ibus-setup utility
2. To insert the space, Shift+Space key is avaiable.