Spanish layout misses ~ combinations

[Alexandre Otto Strube]

Altough the spanish language itself doesn't use the Tilde "~" character itself but in the ñ, portuguese people names are very common, as well as places' names.

In spanish layout keyboards, the tilde is accessed using the Alt-gr+4 combination. Using windows, the ~ works as an accent, which means it waits for a vowel to be typed. In ubuntu this doesn't happen.

ã and õ are very common.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

oh, this is for edgy.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

The same happens for feisty

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

Wrong source package

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

This patch corrects the issue.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

this file is at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

You should provide this patch to the xkeyboard-config project, for the Spanish layout.
I can see that the default Spanish layout

    key <AE12> { [exclamdown, questiondown, asciitilde, asciitilde ] };

which means that this is also a potential place to put dead_tilde (redundant asciitilde here)

File bug at bugs.freedesktop.org with patch.

[Mario Young (mayeco)]

Dear Alexandre,

This still happend in Ubuntu 8.04?

Please reopen this bug if yes.