Typing Asian characters

MoreEbooks · Yesterday, 02:41 PM

I am using the 'fcitx' Input Method mechanism on Debian Linux. But the Calibre EPUB Editor seems to ignore it and thus I can not type in Asian characters. Other programs on the same machine, such as LibreOffice and emacs, work fine with fcitx. Is there something I have to do so that Calibre will listen to fcitx?

kovidgoyal · Yesterday, 09:36 PM

Presumably your fcitx Qt plugin is incompatible with the Qt version shipped with calibre, use your distro packaged calibre and it should work.

MoreEbooks · Today, 07:18 AM

That sounds like a reasonable explanation. I have another computer, a laptop, running the same version of Debian (12) and the same version of Qt (6.4.2) and fcitx (1.4.2.9) but still has the distro version of calibre (6.13) and it works with fcitx correctly. On the system where it does not work has calibre 7.15. The 7.15 got installed by me running the calibre upgrade procedure as linked to by the usual "An upgrade is available" notification from calibre. That is probably how I got into this condition.

Ok, then how I do I roll back the 7.15 calibre to 6.13? Presumably the database schemas are different. The APT package manager on the 7.15 system seems to think that 6.13 is still installed though when I run calibre it is 7.15.

kovidgoyal · Today, 09:12 AM

update debian there's no reliable way to go backwards between major calibre versions.

Yesterday, 02:41 PM	#1
MoreEbooks Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2022 Device: Kindle 10th gen	Typing Asian characters I am using the 'fcitx' Input Method mechanism on Debian Linux. But the Calibre EPUB Editor seems to ignore it and thus I can not type in Asian characters. Other programs on the same machine, such as LibreOffice and emacs, work fine with fcitx. Is there something I have to do so that Calibre will listen to fcitx?

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Yesterday, 09:36 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,163 Karma: 22670164 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Presumably your fcitx Qt plugin is incompatible with the Qt version shipped with calibre, use your distro packaged calibre and it should work.

Today, 07:18 AM	#3
MoreEbooks Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2022 Device: Kindle 10th gen	That sounds like a reasonable explanation. I have another computer, a laptop, running the same version of Debian (12) and the same version of Qt (6.4.2) and fcitx (1.4.2.9) but still has the distro version of calibre (6.13) and it works with fcitx correctly. On the system where it does not work has calibre 7.15. The 7.15 got installed by me running the calibre upgrade procedure as linked to by the usual "An upgrade is available" notification from calibre. That is probably how I got into this condition. Ok, then how I do I roll back the 7.15 calibre to 6.13? Presumably the database schemas are different. The APT package manager on the 7.15 system seems to think that 6.13 is still installed though when I run calibre it is 7.15.

Today, 09:12 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,163 Karma: 22670164 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	update debian there's no reliable way to go backwards between major calibre versions.

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