Keyboard layout changed behaviour - need pointers to fix

[pjmv]

Hello everyone,

I use the “US international with dead keys” layout on all my Manjaro installs. I got used to its behaviour but for some (unknown to me) reason, the behaviour with the apostrophe/quote changed recently.

When pressing the key that displays ´", it used to produce a dead straight single quote like ', and then I could either press space to have a single quote or apostrophe, or accentuate the subsequent letter.

For a couple of days now, it yields an accent ´ which is not really useful - although not as typographically correct as a curly quote ’, a straight quote ( ') is really what I am looking for.

How to fix this ? Either this change is documented and hopefully I can revert to a previous version, either I´ll need to manually override this, but I don´t have single clue about how to do so. Any pointer would be really appreciated.

Thanks for the help,
pjmv

[bill_t]

Hello and welcome to the Forum!

This seems to be an issue in Gtk. Users in this thread provide some solutions:

Acute accent instead of apostrophe in US-intl layout

Hello, I have a US keyboard and have been using the US-international layout with dead keys for years, since I prefer the US layout for coding, but also need to write text with special characters. The keyboard settings in the Manjaro settings manager are Keyboard Model: Generic 105-key PC Language: English (US) Model: English (US, intl., with dead keys) I never touched these settings after finishing my setup. As of latest, I believe since the last bigger Manjaro update, I cannot write single…

[linux-aarhus]

This is an upstream GTK issue - no immediate fix is available at the moment.

The only thing you can do is to report it upstream at the gnome bugzilla.

[pjmv]

Thanks, a lot ! I was able to fix the behaviour by creating XCompose files.

[pjmv]

I have read some issues threads on some githubs and I didn’t even understand whether this was an actual bug or actually a fix that fixed a bug so old it had become the de facto standard.

Anyway the manual fix that was introduced fixed it for me.