Re: Cedilla input in UTF-8 locale with dead keys.

[Andreas Schwab]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> FWIW, Gtk+ has a special handling of this.  Gtk+ also processes all
> compose itself, rather than using X.  See Gtk+ sources,
> modules/input/imcedilla.c:
>
> /* The difference between this and the default input method is the handling
>  * of C+acute - this method produces C WITH CEDILLA rather than C WITH ACUTE.
>  * For languages that use CCedilla and not acute, this is the preferred 
> mapping,
>  * and is particularly important for pt_BR, where the us-intl keyboard is
>  * used extensively.
>  */
>
> Since Emacs does not use Gtk+ for character input, we don't get that mapping.

According to /usr/share/X11/locale/pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose, <dead_acute> <C>
produces "Ç", not "Ć".

Andreas.

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