The solution to run scribus in its default language doesn't work for me. Instead of answering myself (again - I have already described the problem in earlier occasions), I' ll just post links to comments about the prob - this may probably give more detailed information about the problem (and its extents). By the way, I had exactly the same problem with scribus on suse before i switched to ubuntu and I have also tried the scribus-ng package with 1.3.5 from the repositories, having exactly the same problem.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-es/2008-July/030966.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-es/2008-May/029876.html http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2005-May/013494.html http://llistes.cpl.upc.edu/pipermail/ubuntucat-info/2008-February/009201.html http://llistes.cpl.upc.edu/pipermail/ubuntucat-info/2008-February/009227.html http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user-catalan at lists.debian.org/msg06967.html http://llistes.softcatala.org/pipermail/linux/2007-May/000005.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/+bug/177805 ... By the way: I have tried out any hint and trick proposed in all the posts I have found, without success. The http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running doesn't say anything about the problem either. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:16:52 +0200 > From: "Markus W. Barth" <markus at sismografo.es> > Subject: [scribus] compose keys bug finally solved in the new versions > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Message-ID: <200904261716.52099.markus at sismografo.es> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > with the new versions soon to be out, is there any chance that *** compose > key bugs for accented characters is solved? If you google a bit around you > will find a _lot_ of complaints of french, spanish, portuguese and > brasilian users about that problem and I am afraid all those users (or > possible users) get a bit tired of ubuntu saying its a scribus problems, > scribus saying its a qt problem, trolltech saying its an ubuntu problem > (fill in here yourself all the possible combinations of shifting the > problem between those three). > > All I can say is that I'm using a Compose key on Fedora 9 and 10 on > various computers without problems. > > Greg > > > All I can say is that I'm using a Compose key on Fedora 9 and 10 on > > various computers without problems. > > I use the heavily-warned-against-here 1.3.4-based scribus-ng package on > Kubuntu intrepid (also heavily-warned-against-here), and accents and > characters created with the compose key seem to work just fine. > > Is there a particular bug you have in mind? I tried a few things and they > all seemed to work. > > Doc there seams to be an easy fix for it: just run scribus in its default language (which -- at the end -- is english). iirc -- and if the situation hasn't changed in the last few years -- this will solve your problem. afaik, it's a problem related to way ubuntu patches qt, so scribus has really no control over it! on the sunny side, i guess that the issue should be solved with qt 4, so future releases of scribus should automatically work correctly!
