Adding "alt-intl" xkb keyboard to simple.xml not working correctly?

[Rik Shaw]

Previously, I had gotten advice on how to add an xkb keyboard to the ibus input method selection list by modifying simple.xml.  I am trying to use this technique to add the "English (US, alternative international)" keyboard.  Here is the code I am adding to simple.xml:

    <engine>
      <name>xkb:us:alt-intl:eng</name>
      <language>eng</language>
      <license>GPL</license>
      <author>Wasta Linux Team &lt;wasta.li...@gmail.com&gt;</author>
      <layout>us</layout>
      <layout_variant>alt-intl</layout_variant>
      <longname>English (US, alternative international)</longname>
      <description>English (US, alternative international)</description>
      <icon>ibus-keyboard</icon>
      <rank>1</rank>
    </engine>

The keyboard is found by ibus, and is added.  After restarting ibus, however, it doesn't key correctly as compared directly with the xkb keyboard.  For example, typing ' c should result in ç but instead ć is being typed.  This ć matches what the "English (US, international with dead keys)" should make when typing ' c.

So I am confused as to why the alt-intl keyboard is not working correctly in ibus?  It does work correctly when only using xkb.  In Ubuntu, the specification for the alt-intl keyboard is found in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us, and is this:

xkb_symbols "alt-intl" {

  include "us"
  name[Group1]= "English (US, alternative international)";

  key <TLDE> { [ dead_grave, dead_tilde,    grave,          asciitilde    ] };
  key <AE05> { [          5, percent,        EuroSign                ] };
  key <AE06> { [      6, dead_circumflex, asciicircum,    asciicircum   ] };
  key <AE09> { [      9, parenleft, leftsinglequotemark,  dead_breve ] };
  key <AE10> { [      0, parenright, rightsinglequotemark, dead_abovering ] };
  key <AE11> { [      minus, underscore,    dead_macron,      dead_belowdot ] };
  key <AE12> { [      equal, plus,        dead_doubleacute, dead_horn        ] };

  key <AD03> { [          e, E,             EuroSign,         cent        ] };

  key <AC10> { [  semicolon, colon,         dead_ogonek,   dead_diaeresis  ] };
  key <AC11> { [ dead_acute, dead_diaeresis, apostrophe,    quotedbl        ] };

  key <AB08> { [      comma, less,         dead_cedilla,  dead_caron        ] };
  key <AB09> { [     period, greater,         dead_abovedot, dead_circumflex ] };
  key <AB10> { [      slash, question,         dead_hook,        dead_hook        ] };

  key <LSGT> { [ backslash,   bar,            backslash,      bar ] };

  include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};

So is there any help that can be given to make the alt-intl keyboard type correctly when used through ibus?

Thank you,

Rik

[Rik Shaw]

PS.  This is on Ubuntu 16.04, using ibus 1.5.11.  Possibly an update will fix the issue but I have not been able to test yet in Ubuntu 18.04.

[Takao Fujiwara]

You could see `dead_acute` using xev command when you press `'`.
I think us(alt-intl) does not define what `dead_acute` + `c` expresses
but it's defined in compose key.
You could run ibus-daemon with LC_CTYPE=pt_BR to get `ç` instead of `ć`:
```
ibus exit
env LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 ibus-daemon --xim &
```


or You can configure $HOME/ibus/Compose or $HOME/.XCompose file to
override EN compose.

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