[scribus] Text in frame and Properties > Text dialog

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/29/2011 08:16 PM, José Antonio Rocha wrote:
> 2011/1/29 John Jason Jordan<johnxj at comcast.net>:
>> It's true that the Compose key does not work in Scribus 1.3.9 on
>> Linux, neither in the canvas view or story editor.
>
> In story editor, I have no problems with accented portuguese letters,
> brazilian keyboard with dead keys.
>
>>   However,
>> Ctrl-Shift-u + Unicode value does work in both environments. E.g., you
>> can type an á with Ctrl-Shift-u plus E1.
>
> This doesn't works for me, in Linux Ubuntu.
>

Am using Fedora 14, 64-bit, and I find that with 1.3.9 from Fedora's 
repository, the Compose key works in SE but not in Edit Contents mode.

OTOH, with 1.4.0svn, it works in both, so there is some promise that 
this has been fixed. Not sure if this will apply to Ubuntu.

Greg