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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <518056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!

I'm involved in the resolution of an Ubuntu bug about typing the ç
character.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/518056

It was a Brazilian user who filed the bug report, and the requested
behavior is to be able to use the dead key + c ('+c) to type ç. It
should be noted that the "English (US, international with dead keys)"
keyboard layout is frequently used in Brazil. We have now figured out a
decent way to set it up as desired from a Brazilian POV.

We believe it would be a good idea to implement the same solution for
users in Portugal (the pt_PT.UTF-8 locale). However, it would be great
if some of you could comment on it first. There are a few comments in
the bug report (#103 - #113) about making it work the same way for pt_PT
as it works for pt_BR.

Looking forward to know about your opinions, either in the bug report or
by replying to this message.

-- 
Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056

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

Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Confirmed
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libx11 package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

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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