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On 2015-03-27T16:42:19+00:00 Leandro wrote:

There is a long-standing, but simple, problem we, brazilians, face
when installing any linux box, which is that we need that the
stroke combination:

<dead acute> c

gives the cedilla "ç" letter, for the US-International keyboard layout.

The US-International keyboard is used by lots of people in Brazil,
and the touch-type friendly, and standard, stroke for obtaining the
the common ç letter in Portuguese is the  ' + c  combination. 

There is not definitive solution to this problem, which is very
annoying for Brazilians, it is easy to see, by googling "cedilla linux",
or "cedilla ubuntu", how many people is searching for a definitive
solution for this problem. Currently, one can get the ç character
with Alt-Gr + <comma>, or <Alt> + <comma>, but these are not
adequate solutions, particularly because this is not good for touch
typing nor is the standard historic behaviour.

I have suggested in many forums, bug trackers, etc, that a new
keyboard layout should be available on installation, which should
be called, for example,

US-International with dead-keys (cedilla)

There are already many keyboard layouts available, and having
one more solving this problem for all of us brazilians would be great,
and the solution appears to be simple, but we could not get this
to be implemented as of yet.

At this point, there have been linux versions in which the ç was
the default result of the combined strokes, but now, in the most
recent versions (Ubuntu 13.10, for instance), it is back to the
accented c, which makes my upgrades, particularly for my parents
and friends, an enormous headache.

Please help us so that this simple addition reach to correct people.

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/518056/comments/76

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On 2015-03-27T16:45:21+00:00 Leandro wrote:


There is long standing discussion on this topic at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/518056?comments=all

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/518056/comments/78


** Changed in: xkeyboard-config
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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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 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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