"Enable extra typographic characters" conflicts and overrides "Adding Esperanto circumflexes" option in gnome-keyboard-preferences

[Evgeny Kuznetsov]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

On all Ubuntu versions since "Adding Esperanto circumflexes" option was introduced, if conflicts with "Enable extra typographic characters" option.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard
2. Open Layouts tab, click Options...
3. Enable "Add Esperanto circumflexes" (Dvorak or QWERTY, doesn't matter, I use QWERTY).
4. Make sure "Key to choose 3rd level is enabled"
5. Open Gedit, type additional Esperanto characters by pressing s, c, u, j, h, g with 3rd level key. You should get ŝ, ĉ, ŭ, ĵ, ĥ, ĝ correspondingly.
6. Back in keyboard preferences window, enable "Enable extra typographic characters" located under "Miscellaneous compatibility options"
7. In Gedit, type the same sequence again. You'll get §, ©, ŭ, „, ĥ, ĝ — half of the characters in question are replaced.

Desired behaviour:
The best possible thing would be to ensure we have an option to choose which setting overrides another in this case. I suppose it's a lot of work.
My point is: people that are enabling Esperanto circumflexes do need those and do know what they are doing. I suppose they would rather have Esperanto characters working at the cost of §, © and „ in "extra typographic characters". Perhaps a note in the preferences window warning about this override would be nice, too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 21 23:11:56 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[kblc (kblcuk)]

Additionally to that, "Enable extra typographic characters" messes up original layouts, so for example in Finnish layout there is no way to type backslash (”\") character anymore, whereas other symbols (like "…" or ">") are duplicated.

[kblc (kblcuk)]

For comparison, here is a screen shot of layout without extra typographic characters enabled.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Evgeny Kuznetsov (nekr0z)]

Yes, the bug is present in 11.04.

[kblc (kblcuk)]

Yup, still valid.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Evgeny Kuznetsov (nekr0z)]

Is this supposed to mean the bug no longer exists?

Should be "Nobody cares", not "Expired".