Comment 92 for bug 518056

Uhm... I am not sure if that actually works as it should.

First, I tried to apply the pt_BR.UTF-8 locale (using export LC_CTYPE="pt_BR.UTF8") but the language pack was not installed,
therefore the workaround would only work after installing the language pack, probably that will create the
same kind of confusion that the workarounds create now.

Anyway, I installed it, and then I could export the LC_CTYPE. I launched a session of gedit and within that gedit session
the ç appeared correctly. However, at the same terminal from where I launched gedit the cedilla continued
to appear as an accented "c", and the same for new terminals launched from that terminal. That is, changing the
LC_CTYPE environment variable did not work system-wide.

At the same time, although there could a combination of Language/Region/Keyboard that provided the correct
behaviour, I am not sure if forcing a specific language for the interface is a reasonable solution to that problem.

Leandro.