Comment 15 for bug 1163687
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| Jeroen Hoek (mail-jeroenhoek) wrote Re: Impossible to insert any kind of foreign characters with the keyboard | #15 |
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Input of Unicode characters as such works, but only after copy pasting them. What is broken is the input methods normally provided via the UI toolkit. If you are testing under Unity or Gnome Shell, you could do the following to test such an input method:
Configure your Right Alt as 'compose key', by going to the Keyboard Layout settings, then 'Options…', and tick the Right Alt key under 'Compose key position'. Now you should be able to hit the Right Alt, and then consecutively type a '/' and an 'o' to get ø, or hit Right Alt and 's' and 's' to get ß. Basically any sensible composition of keys you can think of will yield the character you would expect. You can test the compose method in any text area on the desktop basically, such as this comment field, Gedit, and even gnome-terminal.