Dear Cousteau, The issue would be easily solved by the introduction of a keyboard layout with the 'c = ç option (which, at this point, seems to be default in some cases). I am far from understanding how are the technical issues behind this. The usability issue is, on the hand, greater than simply an apparent "ilogical" choice of using 'c as ç instead of the actual accented c. The thing is that Cs with accents are used by a small portion of the worlds population, which use also many other accentuations (as inverted grave ^ accents over some letters) and different alfabets, which require highly specific (and available!) keyboard layouts. On the other side, portuguese writers use rather frequently US-International keyboards, as the ONLY issue with dead keys is that of cedilla, and in portuguese accented Cs do not exist. French writers could also claim the same, but as they use in general a totally different keyboard (azerty), they have their own keyboard layout and are satisfied with its default options.
Therefore, this is, indeed, an specific issue affecting only portuguese writers (5% of the worlds population, I guess), and, if the default is changed, I cannot imagine that it will bother anyone, except, maybe, very few people which want to write an accented Cs for some specific reason in some very particular context using a US-International keyboard with dead-keys, and in those cases I think it is not a big deal to search for that character in the special character table. Anyway, I am totally in favor of having more than one keyboard layout option with one and the other options, it is really an important issue for the popularization of Linux in Brazil. I don't know where to put my face whenever I install linux to someone and I cannot make them write a cedilla in an standard, easy and system-wide manner. Leandro. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
