decimal point problem in ibus-libpinyin

[Ping-Wu]

When in Chinese input mode, the "decimal point" is incorrectly shown as the Chinese punctuation "period". For example, 20.04 will be shown as 20。04。

That is:

(in English input mode) 3 divided by 6 is 0.5.
(in Chinese input mode) 3 除于 6 等于 0。5。

This problem has been solved in ibus-libpinyin 1.11.92:

https://github.com/libpinyin/ibus-libpinyin/commit/1eb70ce12bed9d6b53c02ac8693ec52abe1d0216

Please update the ibus-libpinyin version in Ubuntu 20.04.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, looks like a ibus-libpinyin bug though? reassigning

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your investigation!

TBH I don't understand how to reproduce the problem. Anyway, I submitted a merge request to Debian:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ibus-libpinyin/-/merge_requests/1

and made a test upload to this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/ibus-libpinyin

Can you please install from the PPA and confirm that it fixes the issue?

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

@Gunnar: Do you think preparing a version with minimal changes in Debian (applying the referenced commit as patch) works for Ubuntu?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Boyuan: Yes, that is what I had in mind.

[Ping-Wu (wliauh)]

Tried the PPA; works great!

(before)

3 除于 6 等于 0。5。（3 divided by 6 equals 0.5.)

(after)

3 除于 6 等于 0.5。（3 divided by 6 equals 0.5.)

！！！

Ubuntu 20.04 is looking very good. At least as far as Chinese input is concerned.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

That's good to hear. The change has been uploaded to Debian (thanks Boyuan!) and is now waiting in focal's upload queue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ibus-libpinyin - 1.11.1-3

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ibus-libpinyin (1.11.1-3) unstable; urgency=high

  * Team upload.
  * Prepare for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release.
  * debian/patches:
    + Cherry-pick upstream patches on fixing period handling.
      (LP: #1870609)

 -- Boyuan Yang <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:56:51 -0400