Re: [tlug] Input methods - again!

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> > The only obvious thing not working with it is starting to type in
> > Japanese in the WhatsApp Web app (last 3+ years) in Firefox. The
> > workaround is to type a space, then whatever you need.
>
> Curious - I just tested, and WhatsApp works fine for me. Using fcitx 
> with Mozc.
>
> The one I still have trouble with is Linux Skype app: if I type e.g. あ 
> then press enter to accept it, it submits the message (without あ). Only 
> single characters have the problem. E.g. テスト  (tesuto-space-enter) 
> works fine.

By coincidence, we've been working on IME fixes in a web app this week, 
and on Linux chromium I have the above problem, but not on Firefox (*).

So it seems specific to Linux chrome + mozc  (and therefore Linux 
Electron + mozc; though curious that vscode is fine).

I just found this, which agrees:
https://github.com/google/mozc/issues/519

The advice is to move to fcitx5 and fcitx5-mozc, so something to watch 
out for when installing a new system. Anyone here happily using fcitx5?

(I've confirmed I am on fcitx4, and that my distro has got too old to 
make upgrading easy.)

Darren

*: On Firefox it works fine as long as we handle keycode 229, which is a 
special IME event. I was also able to see that Chrome doesn't send that 
229 keyboard event when a single character is being inserted, but does 
when 2+ characters.