Comment 3 for bug 176815

This bug is no longer a problem for me. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and I have changed my input method to scim-bridge instead of scim-pinyin:

$ im-switch -l
Your input method setup under en_US locale as below.
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The configuration "/home/ldd/.xinput.d/en_US" is defined as a link pointing to
scim-bridge
This private configuration supersedes the system wide default.
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The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" .
xinput-all_ALL - status is auto.
 link currently points to default
default - priority 10
default-xim - priority 0
none - priority 0
Current `best' version is default.
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The available input method configuration files are:
default default-xim none scim scim-bridge scim-chewing scim-immodule scim-pinyin th-xim
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I do not know whether the problem has in fact been properly fixed by an upgrade or whether changing from scim-pinyin to scim-bridge worked around the problem. Both scim-pinyin and scim-bridge use the scim-bridge module but they do it in slightly different ways.