Cedilla Problem!

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Dec 2 09:36:22 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:27, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2003, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've had that problem ever since RH8 (I think).
> > In some circumstances, the proper character is written, but gtk widgets
> > and mozilla don't seem capable.
> 
> > I think that the wrong character is being used ever since the move to
> > UTF-8, but I can't find which is which.
> 
> Why would anyone expect ' c to generate something different from ć?
> Sure enough, we used to abuse it to generate ç, but with an
> international configuration, since there are languages that do use ć,
> they have to get preference for the obvious meaning of ć.  So we, poor
> users of ç (or any other ¸s) have to use Compose (generally the right
> Alt key), comma and the letter under which the Cedilla character
> should be placed.  Worksforme, at least in Fedora Core 1.

That's what I use, with near total failure.

Rui
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