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[Invalid UTF-8]this is what I got, and I go back to the pinying 拼 icon at the top , then select preference, at the "General", toggle whatever setting.. close it, come back to my typing space, at the cursor, you'll be asked to select full/half width, select half and you are done.... I'm not good at Linux but this is how I got around with it..I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop.. (I find that choosing full/half with at preference is of no use to this problem).
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Got a fix suggested by pinyinjoe .
The ibus-pinyin package is broken and should be replaced by the ibus-libpinyin package:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-pinyin
sudo apt-get install ibus-libpinyin
https://askubuntu.com/questions/565676/invalid-utf-8-in-chinese-input
1. [Invalid UTF-8]this is what I got, and I go back to the pinying 拼 icon at the top , then select preference, at the "General", toggle whatever setting.. close it, come back to my typing space, at the cursor, you'll be asked to select full/half width, select half and you are done.... I'm not good at Linux but this is how I got around with it..I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop.. (I find that choosing full/half with at preference is of no use to this problem).
2. Got a fix suggested by pinyinjoe . The ibus-pinyin package is broken and should be replaced by the ibus-libpinyin package: sudo apt-get remove ibus-pinyin sudo apt-get install ibus-libpinyin
3. sudo apt-get install language-selector-gnome ibus-daemon -drx No idea why it works :-) 在这里找到的：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23873061/cant-input-chinese-in-pinyin-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04-from-12-04