Comment 8 for bug 1235991

I switched from IBUS to FCITX for this reason and a few others. ibus development is slowing down significantly when FCITX is pacing up - development activity usually predicts future bug number and fix-speed. It seems we are back to the old days of 200x when each region (China, Taiwan, Japan etc) prompts their own input platform intead of their own input methods, and that the hope of a high quality input platform for all input methods is fading away.

FCITX was notorious for its strong personality of insisting on using Simplified Chinese and China Mainland government's encoding instead of UTF-8 for configuration files, repelling non-Chinese users. They changed to English configuration files now, but I don't think they became international and design for other language users - the user interface has toleratable English. Normally I prefer International project over local (culture-speaking) software but in this case fcitx development is much more active.