Certain applications ignore default locale character set

[Daniel]

This is a minor, but annoying bug that concerns the "ç" character in LibreOffice, Goldendict and WINE. My system is Ubuntu 12.04, with XFCE as the desktop environment, English as the default language for most locale settings, and alternative international as the keyboard layout.

Typing the cedilla character ("ç") used to be a pain until I realized that by setting the default character set to French (LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF8") in locale (both /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale), I could enter it with '+c (two successive keystrokes), instead of AltGr+comma + c (three keystrokes, first two simultaneous). In Ubuntu 10.04, as soon as the locale setting was changed, it worked across the board in all applications, including OpenOffice, but in 12.04, whereas some applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Terminal etc.) now interpret '+c as a cedilla, some, including LibreOffice, Goldendict as well as all my WINE software, don't recognize the new key combination and give me an accented c "ć" instead of a cedilla.

Any recommendations, or ideas as to what the problem might be ?

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[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Did you figure out the issue? Is this still an issue for you in 14.04?

[Daniel (danielgh)]

I'm not sure whether I ever totally figured it out, but I found a fix that
works for me: I created a personalized ".XCompose" file in my /home
directory in which I replaced every "ć" I could find with a "ç". Strangely
some programmes wouldn't accept the new key combinations until I changed
"Language Support > Keyboard Input method system" from "ibus" to "none".
I'm not sure what the relationship is, if there is one, or if after that
point the dissident applications accepted my key combinations or reverted
to some other default, but since making those two changes I've had no
further problems.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Bryan Quigley <email address hidden> wrote:

> Did you figure out the issue? Is this still an issue for you in 14.04?
>
> ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: goldendict (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> Certain applications ignore default locale character set
>
> Status in “goldendict” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> This is a minor, but annoying bug that concerns the "ç" character in
> LibreOffice, Goldendict and WINE. My system is Ubuntu 12.04, with XFCE
> as the desktop environment, English as the default language for most
> locale settings, and alternative international as the keyboard layout.
>
> Typing the cedilla character ("ç") used to be a pain until I realized
> that by setting the default character set to French
> (LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF8") in locale (both /etc/environment and
> /etc/default/locale), I could enter it with '+c (two successive
> keystrokes), instead of AltGr+comma + c (three keystrokes, first two
> simultaneous). In Ubuntu 10.04, as soon as the locale setting was
> changed, it worked across the board in all applications, including
> OpenOffice, but in 12.04, whereas some applications (Firefox,
> Thunderbird, Leafpad, Terminal etc.) now interpret '+c as a cedilla,
> some, including LibreOffice, Goldendict as well as all my WINE
> software, don't recognize the new key combination and give me an
> accented c "ć" instead of a cedilla.
>
> Any recommendations, or ideas as to what the problem might be ?
>
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