Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: libx11 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Compose key yields incorrectly accented Greek characters when using
Greek keymap
Status in “libx11” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Version info:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
I use the compose key extensively; I find the compose system to be by far the
fastest and most natural way of entering accented character.
Entering accented Greek characters is currently broken using
composition (using unicode character entry works fine, but that's
laborious and requires you to have memorised all the codes).
Specifically, Modern Greek only uses the "tonos" (and, rarely the
"dialytika") to accent characters. Accents such as the "dasia",
"psili", "varia", "oxia", and the "perispomeni" are never used in
Modern Greek; they are only used in "Katharevousa" and Ancient Greek.
As such, the default character mapping for the ['] (right single
quote) key should certainly be the "TONOS" bearing variants, and never
the other variants. It would be OK for the other accents to be
available via *other* keys, but not the right single quote, which a
Greek-speaking user will always assume to yield the "tonos".
Note that even if the intention had *originally* been to allow the [']
key to be used to access some other type of accent, it's currently
entirely inconsistent: for the alpha and epsilon it yields the varia,
whereas for the iota it yields the psili, and so forth, which makes
the current mapping entirely useless for Greek language entry.
For example:
[Compose + ' + a] appears to yield [U+1F70 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
WITH VARIA], when it should be yielding [U+03AC GREEK SMALL LETTER
ALPHA WITH TONOS]
[Compose + ' + e] appears to yield [U+1F72 GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON
WITH VARIA], when it should be yielding [U+03AD GREEK SMALL LETTER
EPSILON WITH TONOS]
[Compose + ' + i] appears to yield [U+1F30 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
WITH PSILI], when it should be yielding [U+03AF GREEK SMALL LETTER
IOTA WITH TONOS]
... and so forth.
The Greek vowels are alpha, epsilon, eta, iota, omicron, upsilon and
omega; they all need to be fixed to yield the "tonos" variety, for
both lower and upper case.
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