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| − | <onlyinclude>To make your keyboard have the accents working for Brazilian Portuguese on [[Debian]]-like operating systems in the proper way that Brazilians are used to, you need to add a second ''Keyboard Layout'' which uses the '''English (US, alternative international)''' language. | + | <onlyinclude>To make your keyboard have the accents working for Brazilian Portuguese on [[Debian]]-like operating systems in the proper way that Brazilians are used to, you need to add a second ''Keyboard Layout'' which uses the '''English (US, alternative international)''' language. |
| − | I had included some solutions for various Debian-based OS's here, but they were sub-optimal because they were always failing edge cases. But fortunately I recently found this cool [https://github.com/marcopaganini/gnome-cedilla-fix | + | The dead keys are single quote, double quote, back-tick and tilde, typing any of these characters while using the international keyboard will result in an accent being applied to the next typed character - unless the next character is a space in which case the dead-key itself will be typed. For example single quote, double quote, back-tick and tilde respectively followed by the letter '''A''' results in '''á''', '''ä''', '''à''' and '''ã'''. |
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| + | In Spanish, upside down question marks ('''¿''') and exclamation marks ('''¡''') are also required as they work like quotes that wrap around a sentence in Spanish. These characters are available on the international keyboard using '''right-alt + 1''' and '''right-alt + /'''. | ||
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| + | == Cedilla == | ||
| + | An annoying hack is required to fix the cedilla, because the apostrophe+C yields a C with an accent instead of a Cedilla!</onlyinclude>. But note that if the hack is not installed, or it doesn't work on your distro, the cedilla is also available using '''right-alt + comma'''. | ||
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| + | I had included some solutions for various Debian-based OS's here, but they were sub-optimal because they were always failing edge cases. But fortunately I recently found this cool [https://github.com/marcopaganini/gnome-cedilla-fix fix-cedilla] script by [http://www.paganini.net/ Marco Paganini] that seems to work across most versions and flavours of Linux and in most programs whether they're shell, Gnome, Cinnamon, QT or whatever! Thanks Marco :-) | ||
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| + | '''Note:''' This script stops dead keys from working in Telegram, but this can be fixed by commenting out the line that says '''QT_IM_MODULE=cedilla''' in the ''/etc/environment'' file. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 20:29, 26 September 2019
To make your keyboard have the accents working for Brazilian Portuguese on Debian-like operating systems in the proper way that Brazilians are used to, you need to add a second Keyboard Layout which uses the English (US, alternative international) language.
The dead keys are single quote, double quote, back-tick and tilde, typing any of these characters while using the international keyboard will result in an accent being applied to the next typed character - unless the next character is a space in which case the dead-key itself will be typed. For example single quote, double quote, back-tick and tilde respectively followed by the letter A results in á, ä, à and ã.
In Spanish, upside down question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (¡) are also required as they work like quotes that wrap around a sentence in Spanish. These characters are available on the international keyboard using right-alt + 1 and right-alt + /.
Cedilla
An annoying hack is required to fix the cedilla, because the apostrophe+C yields a C with an accent instead of a Cedilla!. But note that if the hack is not installed, or it doesn't work on your distro, the cedilla is also available using right-alt + comma.
I had included some solutions for various Debian-based OS's here, but they were sub-optimal because they were always failing edge cases. But fortunately I recently found this cool fix-cedilla script by Marco Paganini that seems to work across most versions and flavours of Linux and in most programs whether they're shell, Gnome, Cinnamon, QT or whatever! Thanks Marco :-)
Note: This script stops dead keys from working in Telegram, but this can be fixed by commenting out the line that says QT_IM_MODULE=cedilla in the /etc/environment file.
