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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'''.
 
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 + /'''.
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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 + /'''.
  
 
== Cedilla ==
 
== Cedilla ==
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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 :-)
 
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 :-)
  
'''Note1:''' 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.
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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.

See also