I was getting really frustrated with the fact that I had to copy and paste the character ç whenever I had a conversation with someone from Brazil. I did a search around the Ubuntu forums to realize that I was not the only one having this problem. The thing is that on Windows, when you type single quote and c, you get a c cedilla (ç). On Ubuntu, you get a c acute (ć).
If you are in the same boat, here is how I solved my problem.
- Add “U.S. English International (with dead keys)” to your list of layouts (System > Preferences > Keyboard).
- On the Layout Options tab, make sure the Alt key is a third level chooser.
- Alt+, gives the desired results.
Ubuntu 8.0.4 patch to fix it:
– old 2008-05-12 10:54:36.000000000 -0300
+++ libgtk2.0-0.immodules 2008-05-12 10:54:22.000000000 -0300
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
“am_et” “Amharic (EZ+)” “gtk20″ “/usr/share/locale” “am”
“/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so”
-”cedilla” “Cedilla” “gtk20″ “/usr/share/locale” “az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa”
+”cedilla” “Cedilla” “gtk20″ “/usr/share/locale” “az:en:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa”
“/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cyrillic-translit.so”
“cyrillic_translit” “Cyrillic (Transliterated)” “gtk20″ “/usr/share/locale” “”