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Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
I use the compose key extensively; I find the compose system to be by far the
fastest and most natural way of entering accented character.
Entering accented Greek characters is currently broken using composition
(using unicode character entry works fine, but that's laborious and
requires you to have memorised all the codes).
Specifically, Modern Greek only uses the "tonos" (and, rarely the
"dialytika") to accent characters. Accents such as the "dasia", "psili",
"varia", "oxia", and the "perispomeni" are never used in Modern Greek;
they are only used in "Katharevousa" and Ancient Greek.
As such, the default character mapping for the ['] (right single quote)
key should certainly be the "TONOS" bearing variants, and never the
other variants. It would be OK for the other accents to be available via
*other* keys, but not the right single quote, which a Greek-speaking
user will always assume to yield the "tonos".
Note that even if the intention had *originally* been to allow the [']
key to be used to access some other type of accent, it's currently
entirely inconsistent: for the alpha and epsilon it yields the varia,
whereas for the iota it yields the psili, and so forth, which makes the
current mapping entirely useless for Greek language entry.
For example:
[Compose + ' + a] appears to yield [U+1F70 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH
VARIA], when it should be yielding [U+03AC GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH
TONOS]
[Compose + ' + e] appears to yield [U+1F72 GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON
WITH VARIA], when it should be yielding [U+03AD GREEK SMALL LETTER
EPSILON WITH TONOS]
[Compose + ' + i] appears to yield [U+1F30 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH
PSILI], when it should be yielding [U+03AF GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH
TONOS]
... and so forth.
The Greek vowels are alpha, epsilon, eta, iota, omicron, upsilon and
omega; they all need to be fixed to yield the "tonos" variety, for both
lower and upper case.
** Affects: libx11 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bot-comment
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Compose key yields incorrectly accented Greek characters when using Greek keymap
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1025291
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