[scribus] Accented characters requiring 2 keystroke to be typed

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sat Apr 19 14:10:14 UTC 2014


On 04/19/2014 09:55 AM, JLuc wrote:
> In scribus (1.5 svn version compiled on ubuntu) on ubuntu,
> the canvas editing (wysiwyg editing) doesnt enable anymore
> to type in some accented characters as
> ê, î, ô, û, ï, ö, ü, Ê, À, Ô etc
> These require 2 keystrokes : ^ + e, ¨ + i, ^ + E, ...
>
> Other characters are typed in ok : é, è, à, À, É.
> These only require one keystrike.
>
> This happened with Qt5.2 and I have tried with Qt5.3 pre-RC version
> and its not fixed yet.
>
> The workaround is to type in a text editor and copy'n'paste from 
> there... so its not a display issue.
>
> In the "story edit" window, which is not wysiwyg, these characters get 
> typed fine.
>
> Do other people experience this same issue ?
Yes, I see the same thing with fedora 20 using the Compose key. It may 
not be a Qt5 issue, since it happened in the past prior to Qt5, so it 
may be some of the recent text-handling changes made in Scribus.

Greg



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