Guide: fcitx5, Chinese, and Japanese on Fedora 39

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This took more effort than it was worth considering I know neither of these languages.

OS: Fedora Workstation 39

Config:

https://github.com/gptlang/configs/blob/main/hypr/hyprland.conf

Installed packages:

fcitx5.x86_64                                        5.1.7-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-anthy.x86_64                                  5.1.3-1.fc39                        @updates                     
fcitx5-configtool.x86_64                             5.1.3-3.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-data.noarch                                   5.1.7-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-gtk.x86_64                                    5.1.1-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-gtk3.x86_64                                   5.1.1-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-gtk4.x86_64                                   5.1.1-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-libs.x86_64                                   5.1.7-1.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-lua.x86_64                                    5.0.12-2.fc39                       @updates             
fcitx5-qt.x86_64                                     5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-qt-libfcitx5qt5widgets.x86_64                 5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-qt-libfcitx5qtdbus.x86_64                     5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-qt-qt5gui.x86_64                              5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-qt5.x86_64                                    5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-qt6.x86_64                                    5.1.4-5.fc39                        @updates             
fcitx5-rime.x86_64                                   5.1.4-1.fc39                        @updates             

rime and anthy works. fcitx5-chinese-addons is very weird.

Choose the right inputs:

Choosing "Chinese" or "Japanese" doesn't do anything.

Use ctrl+space to change input method. Check out https://github.com/gptlang/configs/tree/main/fcitx5/rime for how to make Rime use Chinese Simplified by default.