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
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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.)
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.
Uhm, there's bug #658090, which you filed and which got fixed because you claimed it was fixed (and nobody else could reproduce it).
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).
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.
It's the same bug, dead keys are broken. I don't think it depends on the keyboard layout at all.
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.