Public bug reported:
1) Using live CD Desktop i386 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (official one,
from shipit) ;
2) From the beginning screen :
Pressing F2: Choosing Vietnamese ;
Pressing F3: keyboard Vietnam is selected by default ! Although this choice
seems logic, but the Vietnam keyboard layout does not reflect the actual
situation in Vietnam where almost all keyboards are of the US English type.
Leaving Vietnam keyboards result in odd keys outputs that may create confusion.
3) Booting the computer with the live CD (Language Vietnamese, Keyboard
US English) without problems.
4) Main bug description:
SCIM by default is configured for Vietnamese typing. But there is only
one choice of Vietnamese character input mode : Viqr, which is activated
by default.
The result is that when you enter any vowel followed by a point, it
results in a Vietnamese accentuated character which could leads to
misinterpretation and confusion (especially with typing passwords
issues).
Exemple, after opening Mozilla Firefox or a Terminal, if you would type
the following 5 characters "asie.", it will results in the following 4
characters "asiẹ". Then, you would need to delete the "ẹ" and do the
following typing "asie", followed by pressing the right-arrow key to
move forward, then pressing the "." key to get "asie.". This looks
rather clumsy to me.
Comments: Viqr input mode is common among Vietnamese living out from the
country. Vietnamese people living in Vietnam have other choices, mainly
Telex and/or VNI input modes. The official choice from the Vietnamese
government is the Telex input mode. I think that including other
Vietnamese character input modes (Telex and VNI) and setting the default
input mode to Telex would be appropriate. The least effort to do would
be to deactivate the Viqr input mode by default.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Bad default choices for Vietnamese installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191451
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