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Typing accented letters with non-US keyboard doesn't work out-of-box #32

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@lbssousa

Describe the bug
After a fresh Aeon installation and setting a non-US keyboard layout - e.g. Portuguese (Brazil) - one cannot type accented letters, except in Firefox browser.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Set a non-US keyboard layout with accented letters support (e.g. Portuguese (Brazil)).
  2. Open a terminal or text editor app.
  3. Type e.g. ^ followed by a.
  4. See a (without accent) being typed in app

Expected behavior
After typing ^ followed by a, one should see â being typed in app.

/etc/os-release

NAME="Aeon"
# VERSION="20251222"
ID="aeon"
ID_LIKE="suse opensuse opensuse-tumbleweed opensuse-microos opensuse-aeon microos"
VERSION_ID="20251222"
PRETTY_NAME="Aeon"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:aeon:20251222"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://aeondesktop.org/reportbug"
SUPPORT_URL="https://aeondesktop.org/bugs"
HOME_URL="https://aeondesktop.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://aeondesktop.org/docs"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Aeon"

Additional context
Here's a workaround to make typing accented letters work:

  1. Install package ibus through transactional-update
  2. Create, for each user, a file named ~/.config/ibus/Compose with the following content:
include "%L"

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