[scribus] No accents issue

[Gregory Pittman]

> I do not know whether this problem has been solved yet. I have been
> looking for in internet and it seems that it comes from ages.
>
> The case is that editing text does not allow to use accents in spanish,
> the Ñ works fine but accents does not. My workaround is inserting the
> character from the Character Map manually but it is quite annoying if
> you have to write down a long text.
>
> I remember that in Windows it worked fine and also with 1.3.3.11 in
> Linux too but recently I got the upgrade to 1.3.3.13svn and now does
> not work.
>
> My conditions are:
>
> Ubuntu Hardy 8.04
>   

one option may be to do text editing outside Scribus, then import.
Does F12, then Unicode value work?

Greg