Spyder cannot accept Chinese input

[willhunger]

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. When i edit with a django project
2. I try to input Chinese character
3. but i failed

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
When i input a Chinese character,i got Chinese Pinyin on screen.
I use the SougouINPUT

Please provide any additional information below

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version:Spyder 3.12
• Python Version:Python 3.53
• Operating system:ubuntu 16.10
• Python 3.5.2+ 64bits, Qt 5.7.0, PyQt5 5.7 on Linux

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[ccordoba12]

Could you write those characters here?

[willhunger]

Of course i can write here @ccordoba12
哈哈哈哈

[jitseniesen]

Ha ha.

I don't use Sougou but I use fcitx to input pinyin on Debian, which is almost the same as Ubuntu. My experience is that Chinese input does not work in the Anaconda version of Spyder, but it does work in the Debian version of Spyder. Pasting Chinese characters into Spyder always works. It may have something to do with how Qt is packaged.

@willhunger How did you install Spyder?

[willhunger]

@jitseniesen
Yes,So do I.
I install Spyder by pip

[xyl576807077]

I met the same problem when I wrote comment using chinese

[willhunger]

@xyl576807077
请问现在你是否解决了?

[xyl576807077]

@willhunger
没有解决，已经暂时使用jupyter notebook了

[willhunger]

@xyl576807077 我也切换到了vscode

[wjt-one]

现在修复好了么？

[wjt-one]

@ccordoba12 @jitseniesen could fix this problem now? it makes work so troublesome.

[ccordoba12]

Sorry, none of us are Chinese speakers/users. So we'll wait until a Chinese hacker send us a pull request to fix it.

[wjt-one]

@ccordoba12 I also install Japanese input methods(fcitx-anthy),and find the same issue occur.so I think it's a problem about " the Anaconda version of Spyder in Ubuntu 16.04LTS" , which maybe can't accept any other language than english.thanks.

[isaaclu0897]

我也有相同的情況！!

我的環境是:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
anaconda 的spyder

之前使用 ibus框架下的的 chewing(新酷音)輸入法可以正常在 spyder下輸入中文。
最近想學拼音輸入法，因此轉戰 fcitx框架下的 sougou拼音輸入法，便不能正常輸入中文了。
(註: 其他的應用程式(jupyter、 chrome等等)都可以正常輸入)

不知道這東西有沒有解？

[isaaclu0897]

更新

剛剛測試了一下，在 fcitx框架所有的輸入法都無法鍵入中文。
但是 ibus的新酷音以及拼音都可以正常輸入。

看來這是程式與 fcitx框架不相容的問題。

[willhunger]

@t104306033
问题是fcitx 与所有的Qt5构建的应用都不能兼容

[willhunger]

@wjt-one
Fctix cannot input any characters except Latino characters to Qt5 Application.
So you can change your input method framework to hack this problem

[cedarice]

可以这么解决
首先需要自己编译fcitx-qt5:
安装依赖：sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules fcitx-libs-dev libxkbcommon-dev
克隆或下载最新版的fcitx-qt5: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-qt5/releases
然后编译：cmake ./
make
最后在platforminputcontext文件夹中的libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so复制到anaconda3/plugins/platforminputcontexts/文件夹中，重新启动spyder即可输入中文。
我的系统是Ubuntu 18.04 LTS，Spyder是通过Anaconda安装的。

[bramson]

I think this is the right place for my problem. I'm running Spyder from Anaconda running from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows...all the latest versions.
After installing a bunch of Japanese fonts on the Ubuntu distro, the Japanese characters all appear in a highly stylized font "MikaChan", the first one installed.
This isn't very readable, but I don't see any way to change the font used for rendering Japanese text in the iPython console.

[shilkazx]

The fix is not work for me. I am on Archlinux x64, anaconda 5.1 py36 and spyder 3.2.6 package from anaconda. I've already try a soft link or a hard copy of libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so(Archlinux fcitx-qt5 package) to anaconda/plugins/platforminputcontexts, but seems nothing happend.

[xiaohongniua]

I got the same problem, and every time I input one char,it shows two on the screen

[Firestar-Reimu]

Feedback in 2021: Spyder can input Chinese on Windows 11 but not on my Manjaro Linux. I use Spyder 5.1.5 and fcitx5.

[ccordoba12]

Hey @1900011604, thanks for the reminder. It seems this problem is solved now, but only if you're using conda-forge.

If you're already using it, you need to run

conda install -c conda-forge fcitx-qt5

If not, you need to run

conda create -n spyder-env -c conda-forge python=3.9 spyder fcitx-qt5
conda activate spyder-env
spyder

That's because conda-forge and Anaconda are incompatible, so you can't mix packages from both.

Please do that and let us know if it works for you.

[Firestar-Reimu]

@ccordoba12 It works, thanks!

[Firestar-Reimu]

It seems that spyder can input Chinese on Linux (I use fcitx5). I use Archlinux repository and installed spyder by pacman:

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/spyder/

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/spyder/trunk/PKGBUILD

This do not need the python package fcitx-qt5.

[ccordoba12]

This do not need the python package fcitx-qt5.

This is only necessary for Anaconda users.

[JGSphaela]

Just stumbled across this issue as I wasn't able input Japanese with fcitx in spyder, so I want to write a quick update. The solution below provided by @ccordoba12 still totally works now and solve the issue:

If not, you need to run

conda create -n spyder-env -c conda-forge python=3.9 spyder fcitx-qt5
conda activate spyder-env
spyder

I noticed tho python=3.9 is not necessary as I successfully install it on Python 3.11. And in my test, a dedicate conda env for spyder, as suggest in @ccordoba12 's code, is really recommended as it can avoid compatible issues.

[ccordoba12]

To everyone subscribed to this issue: it'll be fixed in Spyder 6 (to be released before the end of the year) for our Conda packages and also our new Linux installer.