Bug 722911

Summary:	Fedora 15 LXDE w/KB Canadian French layout - dead keys not recognized in QT app.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	nomnex <nomnex>
Component:	qt	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	extras-orphan, itamar, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, smparrish, than
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Description nomnex 2011-07-18 13:12:07 UTC

Description of problem:

OS "en_US", hardware notebook keyboard "Japanese", default keyboard layout "jp". Additional keyboad layout "ca" [French-Canadian, I type in French].

The dead keys "ç, è, à, etc." are not recognized in all the applications using a QT toolkit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

QT 4.7.3

How reproducible:

Alawys

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setxkbmap -option grp:switch, grp:rctrl_rshift_toggle jp,ca
2. switch to kb "ca"
3. input accents in a qt application field
  
Actual results:

dead keys not working

Expected results:

dead keys working (obviously)

Additional info:

Upstream bug report: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-20428

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2011-07-18 13:23:41 UTC

reassigning -> qt

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2011-07-18 21:35:59 UTC

What input method mechanism are you using for jp? (These bugs are usually caused by input methods, we have at least 2 of them in our Bugzilla already.)

Comment 3 nomnex 2011-07-21 22:54:17 UTC

Hello, I use iBus (recommended). Could you direct me to the bug report already opened for ca input if the issue is the same. Thank you.

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2011-07-22 12:18:38 UTC

Uhm, there's bug #658090, which you filed and which got fixed because you claimed it was fixed (and nobody else could reproduce it).

Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2011-07-22 12:19:20 UTC

Sorry, I mean:
Uhm, there's bug #658090, which you filed and which got CLOSED (as "fixed in errata") because you claimed it was fixed (and nobody else could reproduce it).

Comment 6 nomnex 2011-07-22 14:34:09 UTC

that was about Swiss-French input layout. It has been fixed ever since. I am located in Japan. Unluckily (from my point of view), I write/speak a language with accents. Ca and Fr(ch) language use the same set of accents, but the kb layout is different -- "ca" input relies on dead keys for almost all the accents. The benefit is that a "ca" kb layout is much more closer to a JP/US (my notebook) kb layout, than a fr(ch) kb layout.

Anyway, I think it's best closing this bug since it's misplaced. I will open a new bug with the same issue to Ibus (dest. Fujiwara) since I got a good feedback from him about a ibus time out problem.

Thanks for the feedback and let me know if i should do otherwise.

Comment 7 Kevin Kofler 2011-07-22 16:51:49 UTC

It's the same bug, dead keys are broken. I don't think it depends on the keyboard layout at all.

Comment 8 nomnex 2011-07-26 04:37:15 UTC

Kevin, thanks again for the ibus pointer. Fujiwara answered my question, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725125#c2

A missing ibus plug-in was preventing some KB layouts to input accents relying on dead keys correctly.