Do not use VIQR input method for vi locale by default
authorMing Hua <minghua@ubuntu.com>
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:09:25 +0000 (18:09 -0500)
committerJeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:55:32 +0000 (00:55 +0100)
commitab60744b295e987d524873102a7c1b3488cf2814
treec3c0e847c8712c6c3a0b8a2677a52066e3c0df8c
parent46cac53b0f0d6532f494904d545f4b68c2f4a89e
Do not use VIQR input method for vi locale by default

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

Gbp-Pq: Name 022_disable-viqr-im-for-vi-locale.patch
modules/input/imviqr.c