Re: how to teach emacs that ' + c = ç

[Filipe Silva]

very interesting. LANC=C emacs really fix the problem. What is happening
here?

maybe this is a bug.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I've set up my keyboard layout in arch with localectl set-x11-keymap us
> > pc104 intl
> >
> > By default, in this layout, the ' is a dead character. It is called a
> dead
> > acute. In portuguese, we are used to compose the ç char with ' + c = ç
> when
> > using international us-keyboard layouts.
> >
> > I don't know why, but by default linux distros come configured so that
> when
> > you type this combination ' + c= ć, which is an invalid char in Brazilian
> > portuguese, and so I'm screwed.
> >
> > So I did this:
> >
> >    -
> >
> >    Editing the files:
> >
> >    sudo vim /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache sudo vim
> >    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache
> >
> >    changing the line
> >
> >    "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale"
> >    "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa" to "cedilla" "Cedilla" "gtk20"
> >    "/usr/share/locale" "az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa:en"
> >    -
> >
> >    replaced "ć" to "ç" and "Ć" to "Ç" on
> >    /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> >
> >    sudo cp /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> >    /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.bak sed 's/ć/ç/g' <
> >    /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose | sed 's/Ć/Ç/g' > Compose
> sudo mv
> >    Compose /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> >    -
> >
> >       add two lines on /etc/environment
> >
> >       GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla QT_IM_MODULE=cedilla
> >       -
> >
> >       restart my computer.
> >
> > And all is working fine in firefox, chromium, scite, gvim or any other
> gui
> > tool, but no emacs. on emacs, ' + cinsist on producing ć, despite my
> > efforts.
> >
> >
> > So I ask you, how can I teach emacs to produce ç and not ć in this
> scenario?
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance.
>
> Curious. I have
>
> setxkbmap us_intl
>
> in my init scripts and have the opposite problem (not actually a problem
> for me since in my languages ç is not used).
>
> ' + c produces ç in Emacs but ć elsewhere.
>
> BUT...
>
> if I start Emacs with -Q, then ' + c indeed produces as the other
> applications ć.
>
> After looking at my customizations, tried
>
> LANG=C emacs -Q
>
> and now ' + c gives ç.
>
> Hope this gives you some clues.
>
> Ubuntu 17.04 here.
>
>
>