[scribus] Indic Support in Scribus 1.5

[Dan Horák]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:50:03 -0500
William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > From: cbradney at scribus.info
> > Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:50:03 +0100
> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Indic Support in Scribus 1.5
> >
> >> On 02 Dec 2014, at 19:43, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:03:17 +0530
> >>> From: nikhil.pattnaik at gmail.com
> >>> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> >>> Subject: [scribus] Indic Support in Scribus 1.5
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> Can someone please tell me:
> >>> 1. If Indic support is available in Scribus 1.5? Have the Indic
> >>> patch and additinal Oriya patch been merged into the main Code?
> >>> 2. Is any ppa or exe of the 1.5 svn available? I have not been
> >>> able to install the svn.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> nmp
> >>
> >> I could enter characters in the story editor with Scribus 1.5.0 on
> >> Fedora 20 Linux, but I might need to install more fonts.
> >>
> >> http://williambader.com/scribus-hindi-2dec14.png
> >>
> >> William
> >>
> >
> > But they won’t work in the text frames.
> >
> > Craig
> 
> Is it the same issue as http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12228
> "0012228: Some accented characters dont get typed in text frames"?
> 
> I remember a
> discussion. http://search.gmane.org/?query=Accented+characters+requiring+2+keystroke+to+be+typed&group=gmane.comp.graphics.scribus
> 
> Is there any way to tell if the problem is with Scribus or with Qt5?
> 
> I can type accented characters into text frames in the Scribus 1.4.4
> (linked to qt-4.8.6) provided with Fedora 20 but not with the Scribus
> 1.5.0 (linked to qt5-5.3.2) that I built from source.

There was a bug in keyboard handling between Qt5 and system xkbcommon
library. Is your Qt5 taken from Fedora packages?

The issue in Sigil EPUB editor was tracked as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054646 and I think there
were other bugs too.


		Dan