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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Cedilla input in UTF-8 locale with dead keys.
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:05:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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.

Looks like brain-damage on the part of the Gtk guys: if there's a problem in
this area, it should be fixed in Xlib, not in Gtk.
I'd rather follow the standard X behavior (and maybe lobby for its change),
than use some ad-hoc workaround.


        Stefan




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