GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 587531
The behaviour of US_intl on Windows is different in GTK+ programs
Last modified: 2010-01-20 21:08:48 UTC
Please describe the problem: In Windows applications with the us_intl keyboard layout, typing the two keystrokes 'n will result in two characters being printed on the screen. This behaviour is different with the Linux us_intl keyboard layout. However, the GTK+ program on Windows does not follow the behaviour of the Windows us_intl layout, and the two keys rather result in the single character ń (n+acute). Steps to reproduce: 1. Set Windows to the US international keyboard layout 2. Type the two keystrokes in a gtk textarea Actual results: The single character ń is present in the textarea Expected results: The two characters 'n should have been there Does this happen every time? yes Other information: Windows XP, system set to the Afrikaans (af) locale
We just had a report (which I confirmed) that it is not possible to type a straight apostrophe (U+0027 APOSTROPHE) at all with the Windows XP system set to use the us_intl layout. In other words, neither ('+space) or ('+') would result in a straight apostrophe character. Both result in ´ (U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT). This seems to happen with the input method set to any of - System (simple) - Simple - Cedilla This was originally reported as a bug in Virtaal: http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329
See bug #569581 for lots of discussion. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 569581 ***