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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <518056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Considering that some users prefer ć while others prefer ç, a reasonable
solution to this bug (as already mentioned) may be to add another
keyboard layout. Hence I added a xkeyboard-config task.

OTOH, it looks to me that there are a few layouts already available,
which permits you to type the ç character in various ways. For instance,
with the "English (US, international with dead keys)" layout,
<AltGr>+<comma> gives you ç, and <AltGr>+<Shift>+<comma> gives you Ç.
Furthermore, if you run this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true

yet a few other layouts will be available in Text Entry.

So, even if there are quite a few comments in this bug report already,
have those of you, who need to type the ç character often, explored the
alternatives which are already there?

** Also affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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

Status in gtk+2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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