Scribus does not work with accented characters when writing into a text box

Could you specify your Ubuntu and Scribus version? You can try to remove the scim-qtimm package if you have it installed and also see http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running
Hope that helps.

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Confirming on ubuntu hardy heron 8.04 amd64
$ apt-cache policy scribus
scribus:
  Installed: 1.3.3.11.dfsg-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1.3.3.11.dfsg-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.3.11.dfsg-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I use gnome 2.22.2 as my desktop manager

I specifically cannot add accent to greek letters/characters, should be probably happening the same with the spanish language (not checked) or any other language that uses accents.

Steps:
1) Create a text box in Scribus, double-click to be able to edit
2) Switch your keyboard layout (gnome) to greek language
3) Type in an accented character. For the "Generic 105-key (intl) pc" with "Greece-Greek" Gnome layout, I typically press the ";" and "e" keys in order to get: έ (U+03AD GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS)
The problem is that the text "Τα νέα μας το πρωΐ" appears as: "Τα ν´εα μας το πρω¨´ι"

Other examples:
shit + ";" + "i": Ϊ (U+03AA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA)
shift+";" and ";" (adds accent/tonos and diaireses/dialytika) and "y": ΰ (U+03B0 GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS)

Mind you, this works as expected in other programs, openoffice.org, mozilla firefox, gedit, etc.

oops, shit = shift :) apologies

Yeah, it doesn't seem to work for me now neither, but it did before - forwarding it upstream now.

Where did you send this upstream? Scribus' mantis?

I use last stable Scribus version from Ubuntu, on Hardy 8.04. I still
have the problem.

2008/9/7 Caroline Ford <email address hidden>:
> Where did you send this upstream? Scribus' mantis?
>
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> Scribus does not work with accented characters when writing into a text box
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177805
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Sorry, somehow I've lost track of it. AFAIK this is a general issue with Qt 3.x apps in *buntu. See http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1908

FWIW, this problem does not seem to exist with 64 bit Kubuntu intrepid using the scribus-ng package. When I enter accented characters, they appear as expected.

I have the very same problem with combined characters, installing the normal scribus package.

Using scribus-ng the result is the same.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04.

I have install on 10.04 UNR and normal ubuntu.
the bug is more important , text are invisible.
Text are replace by red .....

Pierre

This should be fixed upstream ages ago. Therefore, closing this bug now.
Do feel free to reopen it if this is not fixed for you.