Installing the " ç " in the U.S International Keyboard in Fedora Core 3

romildo at uber.com.br romildo at uber.com.br
Mon Oct 18 17:51:10 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:10:54AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 06:49 -0300, romildo at uber.com.br wrote:
> > I do not think so. This has alread been discussed when the
> > change happened. As there are languages with the "C with
> > acute accent" character, it looked more natural to bind the
> > <'> <C> sequence to it in th us_intl keyboard map in X11.
> > 
> 
> Indeed. It does sound reasonable, although it pains me somewhat since I
> use the cedilla frequently in Portuguese and French, and the AltGr key
> has always felt like an uncomfortable kludge.

I also use Portuguese (my mother tongue) and could get used to
typing the AltGr+, followed by c combination for c cedilla.

[...]

> Trivia detail: *when* was this change implemented?

I do not know, but if I am not wrong I have first noticed
it with Red Hat Linux 9. There is also a bug report
regarding this issue in the XFree86 Bugzilla opened in
2003-04-08:

    http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122

Romildo




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