caribou (gnome-shell osk): special characters not working

[Fadi Racy]

I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 (fully updated, including Gnome-Shell). Hardware is a Lenovo X1 Carbon Laptop with Touchscreen. I've reproduced this issue on both Wayland and XOrg. I've reproduced this issue on the 17.10 live CD (Xorg) and on a fresh 17.10 (Wayland) install in VBox.

Bug: Caribou/Gnome-Shell Wayland support for Caribou does not display the vast majority of special characters (the ones that you long press on vowels to get). Nor do the upside down question and exclamation marks work on it either. Nor do the Euro or Sterling signs work. This makes it impossible to use when writing in any other languages than English.

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

2) package version:

caribou:
  Installed: 0.4.21-2
  Candidate: 0.4.21-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.21-2 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.26.1-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

3) What do I expect to happen: I expect that when I long press on e and get the popup and select ê, ë that these letter appear
4) they do not. nothing happens

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

To clarify, do you mean the characters don't appear in the app, or the characters don't appear in the OSK?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

See also possibly related bug 1698515.

[Fadi Racy (mo-mashi)]

Hi Daniel, the characters appear fine in the OSK, it's when you press them that it's not typed into the app.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK, thanks. I found this bug upstream, so please comment there if you have more information:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777468
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604585

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also, see bug 1761554 :)