[Scribus] German special vowel symbols with Scribus on Ubuntu

[Martin Tlustos]

Am Samstag, 9. Juni 2007 11:55 schrieb scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de:
> Martin Tlustos napisa?(a):
> > Am Montag, 4. Juni 2007 18:06 schrieb 
scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de:
> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:26:50 +0200
> >> From: Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
> >> Subject: Re: [Scribus] German special vowel symbols with Scribus on
> >> ? ? ? ? Ubuntu
> >> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> >> Message-ID: <200706041626.50985.christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; ?charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>
> >> Am Montag, 4. Juni 2007 13:48 schrieb Martin Tlustos:
> >>
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> your font must contain umlauts and other special characters to display
> >> and print them. I suppose the one you tried doesn't.
> >>
> >> Christoph
> >
> > Hi Christoph,
> > this is not a font problem - I use Gentium for the work. Scribus doesn't
> > put the vowel characters in at all - there's not even those boxes that
> > show up when using a insufficient font.
> > Martin
> > P.S.: by the way - this happens with Scribus-ng and with Scribus 1.3.3.9,
> > but only when the LC_ALL=C option is used.
>
> Hi Martin, please try to remove the scim-qtimm package and see if it
> works for you, it should work:)
>
> ????????sudo apt-get remove scim-qtimm
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim-qtimm/+bug/37711/comments/17
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim-qtimm/+bug/37711
>
> BTW, Scribus users haven't received any help whatsoever regarding this
> bug from Ubuntu makers (apart from some very nice sounding, but long
> forgotten promises a couple of months ago), but it's triggered a lot of
> useful input from users, so that ?we can at least help ourselves.
>
> cheers
> Maciej

Hi, Maciej,
I removed scim-qtimm. That solves the problem with the Umlauts, but triggers a 
new set of problems... (with Scribus 1.3.4):
I created a list with bullets from the opensymbols font. Now sometimes the 
paragraph above gets displayed as opensymbol as a whole (well, actually it's 
all boxes), sometimes I get a $ sign or a # sign at the end of the upper 
paragraph. I then have to select the whole thing unto right before the 
opensymbol bullet and apply the right font or font style, then it gets 
displayed right. Kind of funny... Also, text editing directly within the 
frames is tiringly slow (I prefer the wysiwyg approach over texteditor), but 
that's another thread... ;-)
Martin