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** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  "Enable extra typographic characters" conflicts and overrides "Adding
  Esperanto circumflexes" option in gnome-keyboard-preferences

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  On all Ubuntu versions since "Adding Esperanto circumflexes" option
  was introduced, if conflicts with "Enable extra typographic
  characters" option.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard
  2. Open Layouts tab, click Options...
  3. Enable "Add Esperanto circumflexes" (Dvorak or QWERTY, doesn't matter, I use QWERTY).
  4. Make sure "Key to choose 3rd level is enabled"
  5. Open Gedit, type additional Esperanto characters by pressing s, c, u, j, h, g with 3rd level key. You should get ŝ, ĉ, ŭ, ĵ, ĥ, ĝ correspondingly.
  6. Back in keyboard preferences window, enable "Enable extra typographic characters" located under "Miscellaneous compatibility options"
  7. In Gedit, type the same sequence again. You'll get §, ©, ŭ, „, ĥ, ĝ — half of the characters in question are replaced.

  Desired behaviour:
  The best possible thing would be to ensure we have an option to choose which setting overrides another in this case. I suppose it's a lot of work.
  My point is: people that are enabling Esperanto circumflexes do need those and do know what they are doing. I suppose they would rather have Esperanto characters working at the cost of §, © and „ in "extra typographic characters". Perhaps a note in the preferences window warning about this override would be nice, too.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 21 23:11:56 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

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