[Bug 518056] Re: cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c

[Leandro]

Hi Felipe,

Thanks for the feedback. This issue has been kind of solved by Gunnar
for ubuntu, for given selections of locales (comment #115).

The issue is that now I installed Mint, and realized that the fixes are
not spread to other ubuntu based distributions.

I still do not understand how can we have hundreds of different keyboard
layouts to choose from, at the same time being impossible to create a
new one with this choice.

The specific issue of the 'c=ç is probably less popular now because most
computers sold in Brazil have now the brazilian keyboard layout, and
that is fine. As a programmer, I suffer with the fact that "/" and "?"
are Alt-Gr dead keys in this layout, and I keep using the US one, but
for most people the fact that these keys are in such inconvenient
positions probably doesn't matter.


Leandro.

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Title:
  cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c

Status in xkeyboard-config:
  Won't Fix
Status in xlibs:
  Fix Released
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libx11 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.

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