I need to point out that although I mentioned that "the pinyin input engine has been deprecated", this is inaccurate. Indeed, ibus-pinyin, with some simple tweaking, is robust and fast and works very well in 18.04 (I think I should thank you, Gunnar!) Actually ibus-pinyin is my preferred Chinese input engine, more so than ibus-libpinyin. As far as I am concerned, this is what makes Ubuntu stands out relative to Fedora/RedHat, etc.
I need to point out that although I mentioned that "the pinyin input engine has been deprecated", this is inaccurate. Indeed, ibus-pinyin, with some simple tweaking, is robust and fast and works very well in 18.04 (I think I should thank you, Gunnar!) Actually ibus-pinyin is my preferred Chinese input engine, more so than ibus-libpinyin. As far as I am concerned, this is what makes Ubuntu stands out relative to Fedora/RedHat, etc.