Ok, I spent quite long to figure out why cedilla was the new acute. Since my keyboard already has a Ç key (which I use very rarely) I'm quite annoyed with the decision of making dead_acute + c become a c with cedilla instead of a c with acute (which doesn't have any other input method that doesn't involve writing Unicode codes). Wouldn't it be possible to use a different combination for ç, such as dead_grave + c (or the already existing AltGr-,)? Or use ~/.XCompose or instead of overriding it with a custom configuration. If none of those seem feasible, maybe giving cacute a different combination, such as dead_grave + c, could do (although in my opinion it makes far more sense that the dead ACUTE key, followed by the C key, prints a C with ACUTE rather than a C with CEDILLA).
Among all possible solutions, I think that the best one would be to just make the default input method use X11's Compose, which already solved this problem in a localized way by having a special key composition file for pt_BR locale which maps <dead_acute> <c> to ccedilla while keeping other locales with the default cacute setting, in addition to allowing the user to have a custom ~/.XCompose file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, 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 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/518056/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
