One more thing... In the glory days of DR-DOS/MS-DOS, if I am not mistaken, there was no keyboard setup specially made for Brazil regarding US International keyboard. It was a setup for Latin languages, I.e., every country that has a latin language was affected (French, portuguese, Italian...)
Regards Calvo On Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 09:39 Raphael Calvo <raphael.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gunnar, > > My guess here is based on history but maybe I am wrong.... > The reason we Brazilians use the US international keyboard so much is > because in the '70s and '80s we didn't have a national industry to cope > with our internal demands for products related to computers. Almost every > single computer we had was imported (leggaly or illegally) from USA or it > was a clone made by our industry based on an US computer model. > > Portugal may have had a similar issue (I am especulating here) because > they were also under a dictatorship for some time, but in their case if a > similar situation occurred than they would probably had access to some > design made in Europe instead of something from US. Again, I am > especulating... It is just a theory but Leandro pointed out that he made a > brief research about this issue being relevant to Portuguese people and he > found some links to substantiate the claim that Portugueses would be > benefited from this fix. > > Kind Regards > > Calvo > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015, 19:50 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <518...@bugs.launchpad.net> > wrote: > >> Thanks for your comments re pt_PT, Leandro. >> >> As long as we consider setting LC_CTYPE, in any of the ways mentioned in >> comment #96, a fix, it should be noted that '+c results in ç >> irrespective of which keyboard layout you use. In other words, the >> changed behavior is not conditioned by the use of an English US >> international keyboard layout, as Raphael suggested in comment #98. I >> assume that this was considered a reasonable behavior for Brazilian >> users, considering which physical keyboards are typically used in >> Brazil. >> >> We could propose a change to the libx11 package which adds a >> /usr/share/X11/locale/pt_PT.UTF-8/Compose file. But before proposing >> such a change I would like to ask if it would make as much sense for >> users living in Portugal as the corresponding Brazilian file makes for >> users living in Brazil. >> >> * Do users who live in Portugal use an English US international >> keyboard layout as often as Brazilian users do, or do they typically >> use some Portuguese keyboard layout? >> >> * Since the behavior may make typing certain other European languages >> more difficult, is that drawback possibly of greater importance for >> users living in Portugal (Europe)? >> >> The only Portuguese locales which are supported in Ubuntu are pt_PT and >> pt_BR. >> >> -- >> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug >> 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. >> >> To manage notifications about this bug go to: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/518056/+subscriptions >> > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056 Title: cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/518056/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
