On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 at 13:34:32 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > The Debian packages for GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 both have the patch quoted > > below, which changes the upstream default behaviour. > > The Ubuntu bug is > https://launchpad.net/bugs/191451
Thanks, that provides a lot more context. I've changed the commit message to the following: > From: Ming Hua <ming...@ubuntu.com> > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:09:25 -0500 > Subject: Do not use VIQR input method for vi locale by default > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > In the Vietnamese Quoted-Readable input method, punctuation following a > base letter is converted into diacritical marks, for example a( → ă. > (See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Quoted-Readable>.) > A 2008 bug report in Ubuntu argued that this is a problematic default, > particularly when typing passwords, where the effect of the punctuation > is non-obvious. > > According to the bug reporter, VIQR is popular with Vietnamese users > living elsewhere in the world, where Vietnamese keyboards are unlikely > to be readily available, but is not a popular choice within Vietnam, > where the Telex or VNI input modes are preferred. > > [smcv: Add a summary of the Ubuntu bug] > Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/895043 > Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/191451 > Forwarded: no Is that a good summary of the situation? Vietnamese users: Is this a change we should be asking for upstream, for GTK+ 4? I would prefer it to either go upstream, or be reverted: having a permanent Debian-specific change seems bad. At the moment, we apply this patch to GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3, but not to GTK+ 4. smcv
