For example, emoji-table.txt (from the ibus-table-others package) contains: bishi ╭∩╮(︶︿︶）╭∩╮鄙视你！ 0 so typing "bishi" should give ╭∩╮(︶︿︶）╭∩╮鄙视你！ as one of the candidates. But it doesn’t do that, in fact typing "bishi" gives: (⊙x⊙;)[视力表]┫♀旦￣)σ(呃……) which comes from: bizui (⊙x⊙;) 0 followed by shili [视力表]┫♀旦￣)σ(呃……) 0 The problem is caused by a bug in the ibus-table package, classifying ╭∩╮(︶︿︶）╭∩╮鄙视你！ as traditional Chinese (although it is clearly simplified Chinese) just because some of the non-Chinese characters in that phrase cannot be converted to gb2312 but happen to be convertible to big5hkscs. Therefore, ╭∩╮(︶︿︶）╭∩╮鄙视你！ does not appear in the list of matches while typing "bishi", when "bi" is typed the list of matches is already down to (⊙x⊙;) which is then autocomitted and continuing to type the "shi" selects [视力表]┫♀旦￣)σ(呃……) This can be fixed by improving the detection of simplified and traditonal Chinese while building the tables by ignoring all non-Chinese characters when doing the detection.
Created attachment 611892 [details] ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-improve-chinese-category-check.patch Patch to fix the problem.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4476222 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4476244
Mathieu, can you check that this does not break bug#834971 again? It should not break it but better make sure.
ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-2.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-2.fc18
Package ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-2.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-2.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-13918/ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-2.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ibus-table-1.4.99.20120907-3.fc17
ibus-table-1.4.99.20121113-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ibus-table-1.4.99.20121113-1.fc17
ibus-table-1.4.99.20121113-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.