On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:27, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Nov 30, 2003, Rui Miguel Seabra rms@1407.org wrote:
I've had that problem ever since RH8 (I think). In some circumstances, the proper character is written, but gtk widgets and mozilla don't seem capable.
I think that the wrong character is being used ever since the move to UTF-8, but I can't find which is which.
Why would anyone expect ' c to generate something different from ć? Sure enough, we used to abuse it to generate ç, but with an international configuration, since there are languages that do use ć, they have to get preference for the obvious meaning of ć. So we, poor users of ç (or any other ¸s) have to use Compose (generally the right Alt key), comma and the letter under which the Cedilla character should be placed. Worksforme, at least in Fedora Core 1. I vaguely remember that it worked in RHL9 as well, and possibly even on 8.0. If you want the gory details, there are bugzilla reports about this, but I don't have the bug numbers handy.
Right, but actually we did add some conveniences recently for users who don't need ć but do need ç:
* If your LC_CTYPE points to a language that uses the cedilla (pt, fr, tr, etc.), then GTK+ will by default use the 'imcedilla' input method which differs from the default input method only in the matter of the this compose sequence.
So, put LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 in your /etc/sysconfig/i18n or ~/.i18n. This does not affect the language of the user interface.
(If your are running with LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, then LC_CTYPE is automatically set appropriately, of course.)
* You can also manually force the the choice of input method by setting then environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE to 'imcedilla'.
Regards, Owen