Comment 111 for bug 518056

Gunnar

Thank you very much for your time trying to solve this bug with the
community.

It is really important for us in Brazil and for Ubuntu as well.

Best regards man!

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 10:50 Raphael Calvo <email address hidden> wrote:

> Gunnar,
> I do agree we must have input from someone from Portugal to validate
> everything we are saying...
> But, even though I especulated about Portugal history the other post with
> MS-DOS configuration data is solid data and can be corroborated with a
> simple web research.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 10:35 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the additional info, Raphael!
>>
>> Both Leandro's research and your input indeed indicate that we should
>> make the same change for pt_PT, but it would be good if someone living
>> in Portugal could comment on it first, so we don't upload something
>> based on speculation.
>>
>> Are you Brazilian guys reasonably satisfied with 'the LC_CTYPE approach'
>> for now?
>>
>> As regards the possible future fcitx issue I mentioned, I filed bug
>> #1439231.
>>
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056
>>
>> Title:
>> cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c
>>
>> Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in gtk+2.0 package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in libx11 package in Ubuntu:
>> New
>> Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>>
>> When typing in a US-international keyboard with dead-keys (or
>> UK-international),
>> typing 'c results in an accented c instead of a cedilla.
>>
>> There is a workaround, which is editing the
>>
>> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodule-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.immodules
>>
>> file and changing the line
>>
>> "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale"
>> "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa"
>>
>> to
>>
>> "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale"
>> "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa:en"
>>
>> (add the 'en' at the end).
>>
>> However, every time some update on this file is applied, one looses the
>> change,
>> and we get back to the accented c. That means having to modify the file
>> again,
>> logout and login.
>>
>> For me this is no problem. But for my brother, mom, dad, etc, it is
>> always something
>> that at least makes me less proud of having convinced them to use
>> Ubuntu, because
>> they don't know what to do each time this happens.
>>
>> I think we really need a configurable keyboard layout, or at least (and
>> that would
>> be very easy), the inclusion of alternate layouts on install that for
>> the dead-key
>> options (as US-deadkey and UK-deakey), alternate layouts as
>> US-deadkey-cedilla.
>>
>> This change is relevant for at least Portuguese and French.
>>
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>