The issue was recently encountered frequently. Just in case if the support team is not so familiar with Mandarin(traditional), the process of typing is done by first keying in a few phonetic symbols (known as Bopomofo) and than choosing the desired character. To improve efficiency, input of multiple characters at once is available. The example below is me typing 4 characters at once. This process can last for seconds.
However recently i noticed that sometimes while my typing wasn’t finished yet, Agenda consolidates the typing process. The phonetic symbols are printed out before they can turn into Chinese characters. Typing became quite troublesome since the process is frequently interrupted and I have to delete those phonetic symbols manually. The screenshot below is what happened following the former picture.
Sorry for the trouble. We have heard a few reports about Chinese typing in general, not just this particular traditional keyboard.
It would really help us if you could make a little experiment for us that would show the problem. The smaller the better. Just a few steps we can do to see and test the problem.
We don’t speak Chinese, so you may have to be quite explicit about how to do the steps. Perhaps with some screenshots.
Sorry to ask this, but otherwise it is difficult for us to see the issue ourselves. (If it were in English, we could probably figure it out.)
After the phonetic symbols are chosen, they appear on the screen with a dark highlight indicating the typing wasn’t completed yet.
There’s a row just above the keyboard zone showing the user all available characters to choose from. In this case, I am going to choose the character 水
After pausing for a few seconds, the phonetic symbols are printed out where they shouldn’t.
Why do we need to stop at step 2
To make typing more efficient, Chinese typing can be done by typing multiple characters at once. So basically we are used to typing at least 2-3 characters in one single input before entering step 3.This results is a prolonged step 2. Thus the issue is frequently encountered. This issue leaves a bunch of phonetic symbols on the screen and cause disruption of normal input.
I’m not sure if this is clear enough to explain the issue to you, please let me know if anything is unclear. As far as i know Chinese simplified typing is not done by this Bopomofo method. They use Pinyin instead. The difference between the two method is that in Pinyin system they use multiple Latin letters to compose a phonetic symbol, I reckon they might still have similar issues because they might end up with some Latin letters showing on their screen before turning into Chinese characters as well.
These instructions were really good. I was able to reproduce and test the issue very easily. I have made a fix, and it will be in the next release, probably early next week.