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)
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:55:28 +0000 (09:55 +0100)
commit86de47a80f05f4bf4cfb63651d0e86a95982326d
tree43b0d95a7055d02e4a3d9713c2828207a47a476d
parent32739d4d5408b5342134b060a0c2c631a4befe95
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