GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 619003
Dead key quotes not working properly
Last modified: 2010-05-18 17:27:45 UTC
The US International keyboard layout has 5 dead keys (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International): `, ~, ^, ', " These all work beautifully in conjunction with other keys, so `+e results in è, ~+n results in ñ, and so on. In order to get one of the dead keys themselves, one needs to press <dead key> followed by <space>. This too works for `, ~ and ^. However, the combinations ' + <space> and " + <space> seem to be broken, as they result in ´ and ¨, which should only appear after pressing <AltGr> + ' and <AltGr> + <Shift> + ', respectively. So far, I've tested two Gtk+ applications which exhibit this behavior on Windows XP and Windows 7 (probably all Windows versions): * gedit 2.30.1 (seems to rely on Gtk+ 2.16.6) * Leksah (seems to rely on Gtk+ 2.18.7) The native version seems to be fine - on my Ubuntu box everything works as expected. There are already two similar bug reports, namely: * ID 617583 * ID 613148 However, those address a different issue, as dead key combinations work just fine with the Win32 port.
This is a duplicate. It is well known that the US-Intl keyboard layout is problematic. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 569581 ***