fcitx is a widely used helper application to enable non-English character input. It's basically a must-have for Linux users in Asian regions like China/Japan/Korea/India. At this moment, Kate from a distro's official repo can use fcitx without issue, but it doesn't work inside our official appimages. A small Qt plugin must be packaged in order to utilize the system's input source. Either of the following plugins would work: fcitx-qt5 (old fcitx) https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-qt5 OR fcitx5-qt (new fcitx) https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-qt We've figured it out in Krita's appimage packaging: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422465 (See Comment 4 by Weng Xuetian and Halla's commits in Comment 6, 7, 12) It would be nice to have fcitx support packaged in Kate's appimages, otherwise people in the fore-mentioned regions must use Copy-Paste to input their native language. Thank you for your time!
Hi, good point, I think we miss this as dependency in the craft blueprints.