Candidate Window in Traditional Chinese Pinyin Input Method Went Missing after Upgrading to El Capitan

I meet the same issue, and the three options i tried are:

1. Open Keyboard Preference, remove Simplified Chinese Input Method, and add it again.
2. Switch to US keyboard (or Some other input method), open Activity Monitor and force quit "Simplified Chinese Input Method". And then switch to Simplified Chinese Input Method.
3. Close and reboot the Mac.

No need to switch account, the second & third option works for me on OSX El Captain (10.11.6).

Number 2 worked for me as well. Thank you!!

I have the same problem, the candidate window when switching to chinese language doesn't show, I have read and its suppose that with Capitan the predictive feature for chinese language is better, so no need the candidate box, THIS IS NOT TRUE, since I tried to write in chinese ( pinyin) and the characters chosen by the system are all wrong and doesn't make any sense in the text I am writing, is not like when you are using a microsoft software to write chinese that predict the characters according to the sense of what you are writing, and actually even in these programs, you always have to choose between the options of characters when you write chinese.

I am impressed that no-one else has reported this bug before, and is really annoying , Mac is yet not very good with asian languages input features, and now is even worst, when they claim to make it better, actually is even worst, hope can fix this bug asap.

I am tired of upgrading my mac, and every time I have to spend a whole day trying to figure out how to fix problems that before the upgrade didn't happen. Kind of scares my when there is a new system upgrade.

It's not a "solution". It's a way of isolating what causes the issue.

Tom Gewecke is one of, if not the, most experienced users on this forum regarding language issues.

You'd be well advised to follow his instructions.

didivillo wrote:

I am impressed that no-one else has reported this bug before

Maybe it is very uncommon and reflects a problem with your particular user acount or system. I can't duplicate it myself:

The candidate window disappears in some situation. When I switch to the guest account, It come back, switch to my account, it disappears. A logout/login can fix it.

Is there some process I can kill to fixit?

manapegoesmod wrote:

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Does it work ok when you have created a new account and logged into that? If so, that normally means you are running something in your main account which is interfering (antivirus junk perhaps?) or you have a bad .plist in Home/Library/Preferences. Moving to an account which works may be an option.

Try setting up a new user account and see if you have the same problem when logged into that.

It doesn't make sense that you have to make a new user to fix this box, I won't even try this "solution"

I have recently had the same issue with mine, although with Simplified Chinese, not Traditional. Any solution found yet?

Try setting up a new user account and see if you have the same problem when logged into that.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem? It's super annoying. I'm going to break the computer and go back to windows.

Thank you so much for this. Number two worked for me.

Thank you SO much

Option 2 was super helpful

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