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[Leandro <518056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Concerning the pt_PT: Although we do not have manifestations from Portuguese people, we can be quite certain (as we know the Portuguese language :-) ) that the fix will be useful for them as well. Concerning other latin languages: Spanish, French, Italian, none of them have the acute-c character, so probably few people will notice the change. On the contrary, French has the cedilla character. They do not complain about that because their keyboard is totally different (including letters interchanged) so are always out of their confort zone when typing in any qwerty keyboard anyway. 

Of course, there will be some people trying to type, for instance,
Serbian, with some keyboard, and they will need the accute-c letter.
However, as mentioned in some comment above, they will also need many
other letters that are not easy to type in the US keyboard anyway, so
preserving the accute-c for the Portuguese people will affect very, very
few people, and only in a very unusual way.

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

Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Confirmed
Status in gtk+2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libx11 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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