Comment 62 for bug 518056

Great article...
I followed and installed on my computer and it works flawlessly.

I think I will use it until the bug is fixed.

Question, if I upgrade to a new Ubuntu version would I have to install him
back again?

Regards

Calvo
On Jan 25, 2015 2:20 AM, "gui ambros" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I solved my problem with uim and a custom .XCompose. Works reliably
> across gtk+2.0 and QT. Documented the steps here:
>
> https://wrgms.com/using-xcompose-with-chrome-and-sublime-text/
>
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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 gtk+2.0 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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