Comment 2 for bug 947908

I try to provide more information about the bugs and the affect to HK people. Although most Hong Kong people are Chinese, most of them usually use English for work as Hong Kong was a colony of UK for over 100 years. Therefore, a big number Hong Kong people are more familiar with English interfaces on their computer even that we have locale zh_HK (Chinese (HK)). However, while using the English interface as default, they would like to read Chinese document/web page and input Chinese in the English interface. Such a using habit is common in Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux environment. And en_HK is the locale that such a kind people usually use.

For locale zh_HK, ibus-table use Traditional Chinese as the default Chinese mode. But for non zh locale (e.g. en_HK) , ibus-table will use Simplified Chinese as the default Chinese mode if the active input method is Chinese input mode. The Simplified Chinese mode restricted the input method can only input Simplified Chinese character which make many HK people confused.

Unfortunately, such a case is worse in both Ubuntu and Debian compared with Fedora. In Fedora 16, user click on the ibus icon on the indicator bar to show the current Chinese mode and switch the Chinese mode as well as switching the Input Method. In Ubuntu and Debian, clicking the ibus icon on indicator bar can only switching the input method. User have no way to know what Chinese mode they are on in Ubuntu and Debian except configure the ibus to show the language panel to always use in ibus-setup. Such an issue mis-leading that many Ubuntu/Debian use think that ibus cannot input Traditional Chinese.

As Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is a very important release, we wish that such a bug can be fix in these release to allow HK Ubuntu lover to promote Ubuntu in HK easier.