[Bug 2012788] Re: Entering Unicode characters with code points broken

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Yes, Heinrich, on the surface this seems to be an ibus issue. But I
think the root cause lies in some package which ibus is built with.

If I downgrade to the binaries built by ibus 1.5.28-1 on February 23,
using code points works fine. In 1.5.28-2 two upstream commits were
added as patches, but if I now build ibus with those patches disabled,
it doesn't help. A no-change rebuild does not help either.

Maybe glib is the culprit? ibus 1.5.28-1 was built with glib 2.74.

** Also affects: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Entering Unicode characters with code points broken

Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On an updated lunar, following this instruction:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-
  specialchars.html#ctrlshiftu

  no longer works. If I press for instance

  Ctrl+Shift+U followed by 2014

  I see u2014 (underlined) on the screen. But it's not replaced with the
  expected character (in this case an Em Dash) when I confirm with Space
  or Enter — it just disappears.

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