Chinese input in Sierra not working

Hi, I also have this problem. I have two user accounts on my mac. One already had chinese input set up prior to my upgrade to sierra - this still appears to be working. After setting up chinese input on the other account after installing sierra, the input (and prompt) was working initially as expected. Suddenly it just stopped and not showing the candidate characters any more. I remember changing the font size in one of applications just before the prompt disappeared. However not sure if this was the cause.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Following my post, I have done a restart of my mac and candidate prompt re-appears again!

The input sources (Pinyin...) by Apple are all fine, I'm using the "create and use your own input source" by Apple and already followed all the instructions to create the input method, it was working fine on OSX Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan... but not on macOS Sierra ONLY!

Ciderkin wrote:

The input sources (Pinyin...) by Apple are all fine, I'm using the "create and use your own input source" by Apple and already followed all the instructions to create the input method, it was working fine on OSX Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan... but not on macOS Sierra ONLY!

This sounds like a bug that Apple will have to fix. Let them know via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

If you like, send me your .cin or .inputplugin file and I will have a look too. (tom at bluesky dot org)

Hi Tom,

Just sent the .cin to your email, see if you know what's the problems there! Many Thanks!

For more details, you can check my other discussion here:

MacOS Sierra Create and use your own input source problem

Not only happened on Pinyin, Cangjie Chinese input also got the same problem on Sierra, only show up the same wordings for any Chinese word typing, I don't think reinstall the OS can solve this problem, hope Apple can fix this problem asap instead. It's really soooo annoying problem for Chinese input person.

jesschg wrote:

Not only happened on Pinyin, Cangjie Chinese input also got the same problem on Sierra,

If you are talking about the inputs supplied by Apple, most people do not have any problem with these, so it is a problem with your machine, not something Apple will be fixing.

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

Yes, I'm using Built-in Cangjie input, but both my iMac and Macbook Air got the same problem.

I just tried your suggestion to create a new account and try again, but the result is the same, that's mean the problem is on Sierra OS side, not my machine then.

Then you should try reinstalling.

THen you should try reinstalling.

I tried on my Macbook Air before, but still the same

Did you try a clean install?

I have the same problem too when I m using Microsoft Office 2011, but it works when I use Safari. May I know how to solve the problem?

tkwangel wrote:

I have the same problem too when I m using Microsoft Office 2011

If that is the only place, you should also ask in the MS forums

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac

Hi there,

I have exactly the same problem too ! I have been using my own cantonese .inputplugin for 5-6 years in many different version of OSX and it was working in perfect condition, but once I upgraded to Sierra, the problem came out and the number indicator is gone.

I wanted to find out whether it's the problem of the file itself or of Sierra, so I have created a few more .inputplugin file for testing but all failed - none of them show the number indicator in the candidate window.

At the moment I can only go back to El Capitan, until there is a solution to the issue.......