Can't type accented letters in certain programs

Question

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 last week and haven't been able to type accents in some programs.

For programs like Chrome, Terminal and the native folders it's working as intended (eg typing ´ followed by a gives you á, ~ followed by a gives you ã, etc).

But for programs like Firefox, Discord and Spotify typing ´ followed by a will either give you a regular a or no letter at all. Same goes for the other accents.

Any ideas?

Edit: I use a pt-br keyboard layout

Edit 2: Finally got it to work. Keyboard input method was set to XIM and switching it to iBus fixed it

Provide information on the keyboard layout you use. I cannot reproduce that in Firefox with a US International keyboard layout. — vanadium, Oct 12 '22 at 06:58
Looks like a problem I had: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1425841/wrong-setting-for-my-belgian-keyboard-at-logon-after-upgrade-to-22-04 — Marc Vanhoomissen, Oct 12 '22 at 09:14
Does this answer your question? How to type Ŭ (U with breve)? — karel, Oct 20 '22 at 10:43

graham · Answer 1 · 2022-10-12T09:15:10.177

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I found a similar issue with my 22.04 instance using an English (UK) keyboard as the Input Source it having previously worked fine in my 20.04 instance with similar keyboard selected.

In Settings > Keyboard I changed the Compose Key to Right Ctrl to test it and the functionality issue being experienced was fixed.

So Right CTRL+C+, (pressed individually in sequence) again produces ç etc.

edited Oct 12 '22 at 09:15

answered Oct 12 '22 at 07:00

graham

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Trunk · Answer 2 · 2023-07-08T13:46:43.490

I already had @graham's setting made but still found issues using certain web apps like forums.

For example, the Sublime Text forum does not give you the right character for a cedille when you type a 9 on a French keyboard.

A similar miscoding occurs on a financial matters forum.

When some member of these forums has a user name which contains an accented character, I see a Cyrillic character instead when viewing the site on my PC - but I observe the correct character when viewing it on my Android phone !

Others report the same thing.

This tends to rule out absence of sufficient languages/keyboards on the web app's server as the cause and suggests some misconfiguration on the client machine . . .

Weirdest of all is the fact that my admin account has everything displaying properly on the affected forums - yet when I look at language and keyboard settings, they are the same as on the user account where the issue is observed . . .

EDIT

I unchecked the option to Allow pages to choose their own fonts ... in the Firefox settings:

The rendered font changes to the default DegaVu and the accent characters return.

Can't type accented letters in certain programs

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