GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 90216
Desktop integration of input methods
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If GNOME2 is started choosing Japanese as the session language no Spanish special characters (ñ, á, ü, etc.) can be entered. Steps to reproduce the bug: 1) Initiate a session in Japanese. 2) Use the Keyboard Layout Switcher applet to change to Spanish keymap. 3) Run Gedit 2 or any other application. 4) Try entering Spanish special characters (nothing happens). I guess it will occur the same to special characters of French, German, Polish, etc. as well as Korean, Greek and Hebrew. If I run GNOME2 choosing as language for the session POSIX C/English I can enter Spanish text without any problem at all.
Is this gtk+ Owen ? Its a lot closer than libgnome-desktop, anyway :-)
Wel, actually, it's not really a GTK+ problem. From GTK+'s perspective, the situation is clear - you have a Japanese input method selected, and it can't handle characters not in Japanese. If you right click in a GTK+ entry or text field and select the "Default" input method, you'll then be able to enter the Spanish characters. It's basically a desktop integration RFE ... instead of one applet to pick the keyboard map, and a widget right click to pick the input method, there should be an applet that does both, and a nice property dialog to configure it I'll leave it in GTK+, because I don't know a better place for it,(the 'general' product is pretty much a dumping ground for junk bugs in many cases.)
Moving input method related bugs to input-methods component
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82714 ***