[scribus] Accented characters requiring 2 keystroke to be typed

[Dan Horák]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:10:14 -0400
Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/2014 09:55 AM, JLuc wrote:
> > In scribus (1.5 svn version compiled on ubuntu) on ubuntu,
> > the canvas editing (wysiwyg editing) doesnt enable anymore
> > to type in some accented characters as
> > ê, î, ô, û, ï, ö, ü, Ê, À, Ô etc
> > These require 2 keystrokes : ^ + e, ¨ + i, ^ + E, ...
> >
> > Other characters are typed in ok : é, è, à, À, É.
> > These only require one keystrike.
> >
> > This happened with Qt5.2 and I have tried with Qt5.3 pre-RC version
> > and its not fixed yet.
> >
> > The workaround is to type in a text editor and copy'n'paste from 
> > there... so its not a display issue.
> >
> > In the "story edit" window, which is not wysiwyg, these characters
> > get typed fine.
> >
> > Do other people experience this same issue ?
> Yes, I see the same thing with fedora 20 using the Compose key. It
> may not be a Qt5 issue, since it happened in the past prior to Qt5,
> so it may be some of the recent text-handling changes made in Scribus.

hmm, it might be a more general problem, we got a bug report in Fedora
for this behaviour in Sigil, the epub editor, which is Qt5 based ...


		Dan