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Can't type accented letters in certain programs

biffmila

10/12/23, 5:43 AM

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 last week and haven't been able to type accents in some programs.

For programs like Chrome, Terminal and the native folders it's working as intended (eg typing ´ followed by a gives you á, ~ followed by a gives you ã, etc).

But for programs like Firefox, Discord and Spotify typing ´ followed by a will either give you a regular a or no letter at all. Same goes for the other accents.

Any ideas?

Edit: I use a pt-br keyboard layout

Edit 2: Finally got it to work. Keyboard input method was set to XIM and switching it to iBus fixed it

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vanadium

10/12/23, 6:58 AM

Provide information on the keyboard layout you use. I cannot reproduce that in Firefox with a US International keyboard layout.

Marc Vanhoomissen

10/12/23, 9:14 AM

Looks like a problem I had: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1425841/wrong-setting-for-my-belgian-keyboard-at-logon-after-upgrade-to-22-04

karel

10/20/23, 10:43 AM

Does this answer your question? [How to type Ŭ (U with breve)?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1432849/how-to-type-%c5%ac-u-with-breve)

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Ubuntu

24601

10/12/23, 7:00 AM

I found a similar issue with my 22.04 instance using an English (UK) keyboard as the Input Source it having previously worked fine in my 20.04 instance with similar keyboard selected.

In Settings > Keyboard I changed the Compose Key to Right Ctrl to test it and the functionality issue being experienced was fixed.

So Right CTRL+C+, (pressed individually in sequence) again produces ç etc.

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Trunk

7/6/24, 11:55 PM

I already had @graham's setting made but still found issues using certain web apps like forums.

For example, the Sublime Text forum does not give you the right character for a cedille when you type a 9 on a French keyboard.

A similar miscoding occurs on a financial matters forum.

When some member of these forums has a user name which contains an accented character, I see a Cyrillic character instead when viewing the site on my PC - but I observe the correct character when viewing it on my Android phone !

Others report the same thing.

This tends to rule out absence of sufficient languages/keyboards on the web app's server as the cause and suggests some misconfiguration on the client machine . . .

Weirdest of all is the fact that my admin account has everything displaying properly on the affected forums - yet when I look at language and keyboard settings, they are the same as on the user account where the issue is observed . . .

EDIT

I unchecked the option to Allow pages to choose their own fonts ... in the Firefox settings:

The rendered font changes to the default DegaVu and the accent characters return.

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