[scribus] using symbols like ', ^, ~

[Gregory Pittman]

On 04/03/2010 07:05 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Christoph Schäfer wrote:
>> Am Samstag, 3. April 2010 01:33:15 schrieb Gustavo Nicodemo:
>>> Submitted on 04/03/2010
>>> Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.6.26]
>>>
>>> Submitted values are:
>>>
>>> Your contact information:
>>> Name: Gustavo Nicodemo
>>> Email Address: lgnicodemo at hotmail.com
>>> Your request content:
>>> Subject: using symbols like ', ^, ~
>>> Message:
>>> I can't use symbols like "~", very used in portuguese writing. To obtain
>>> "ã", for example, usually just need to press '~' and 'a'. Doing this I'm
>>> obtaining "~a" in Scribus. What I need to do to obtain "ã"?. Thanks.
>>
>> This is an issue with some Linux distros, including the one you are
>> using. One of our developers is currently working on a fix that will
>> prevent the issue on those platforms. It won't be available for
>> 1.3.3.x, though.
>
> Not only Linux:
>
> On MacOSX 10.6 with the X11 version of Scribus-1.3.6, dead keys do not
> work, neither in the story editor nor directly in the text frame.
>
> With the aqua version, dead keys work in the story editor, but not in
> the text frame.
>
> Composite characters that are directly available, for example accented
> characters on a French keyboard or c-cedilla on a Portuguese keyboard,
> are working in all these cases. Only the dead keys do not work.
>
There also seems to be some unpredictable hardware (keyboard?) issues.
My Fedora 12 works fine with Story Editor, not directly in the frame 
(Edit Contents), but I have an older computer running F12 that refuses 
to make ° anywhere with a compose key, even outside of Scribus.

What I have done in the past sometimes is use Klipper to save a number 
of accented characters -- as clumsy as that is, it can be faster than 
some other workarounds.

Greg