Bug #518056 in Launchpad

[Raphael Calvo]

Thanks Gunnar

I made a brief research through Ubuntu's documentation and I think the
affected packages are:
ubuntu-keyboard-portuguese
ubuntu-keyboard-spanish
ubuntu-keyboard-english
ubuntu-keyboard-french

Note that I included
ubuntu-keyboard-english
I think it is applicable due to the fact that I have no knowledge of a word
in English that has the '+c combination resulting in accented C (ć) instead
of ccedilla (ç). I also crosschecked the US English behavior keyboard in
Android 5.0.1 to see what was the result and there is no ć option (when
pressing and holding "c"). To write down this msg I had to switch keyboards
in my phone to present the ć character. The '+c = ç is the default behavior
for Latin languages using US International keyboard since the old times of
MS-DOS/DR-DOS (80's).

The problem is not related to udev, evdev or kernel since the keys are all
mapped and respond to a user input. The problem is the outcome of the
keystroke combination '+c that should result in ç for Latin languages when
using US International keyboards.

There are workarounds in other packages that provide only local solutions,
for instance, to change GTK+ as suggested by another bug affects only GTK+
apps, thus KDE users/apps would not behave as expected.
IMHO the fix must be done using a global strategy instead of local,
otherwise the number of changes through the ecosystem grows exponentially.

Could someone double check if the packages listed herein are the correct
ones.

Regards

Calvo
On Jan 24, 2015 6:32 AM, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> [ re: https://launchpad.net/bugs/518056 ]
>
> Hi Raphael!
>
> On 2015-01-24 06:13, Raphael Calvo wrote:
> > This bug needs a little love...
> > It has at least 4 years and it may be fixed with two lines of code.
>
> One reason it has not got sufficient attention may be that the affected
> package(s) is not specified. If you know (or are able to guess) which
> packages(s) would be involved in a proper solution of the issue, it
> would be helpful if you could state it in the report by adding new bug
> tasks.
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
>
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