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Bug 172117 - Dutch ij and IJ characters hard to produce
Dutch ij and IJ characters hard to produce
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboard
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-30 16:18 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2005-05-24 14:00 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2005-03-30 16:18:09 UTC 
The Dutch language knows a combined vowel, the ij, which is usually just written
as ij (i followed by j). Unicode now has separate characters for these, numbers
132 and 133. However, there currently seems to be no way to easily produce this
character in GNOME.

The Dutch keyboard layout does know ÿ, but this does not look right, and
moreover, *nobody* ever uses the Dutch layout. Almost every Dutch PC comes with
an US English keyboard. So I'd like to request that some Compose- or AltGr
method is provided to be able to easily type the ij.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-03-30 16:31:01 UTC 
Further investigation shows that - according to my
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 file - the key combination Shift+AltGr
followed by ij _should_ yield an ij, much like Shift+AltGt followed by ae yields
æ.  However, this does not happen!

My X version is Xorg 6.8.2.
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-03-30 19:43:22 UTC 
Small correction: it's the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.
Sorry for the spam!
Comment 3 Pablo Saratxaga 2005-03-30 20:33:08 UTC 
to use X11 Compose definitions you must tell gtk to use it:
do a right-click on the edit area, and choose input method -> XIM input

you also need to be in an UTF-8 locale

It is not a gtk but, I can type it on gtk programs.
(so, someone please close this bug as invalid)
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2005-05-24 14:00:48 UTC 
NOTABUG according to the comment