Bug#404383: libgtk2.0-common: IPA text entry method generates wrong unicode

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: libgtk2.0-common
Version: 2.8.20-3
Severity: normal


When using dia, I noticed that the IPA text entry method
has two key combinations that generate the same symbol,
and is missing one symbol.

Both "E" and "\3" generate unicode 0x25B, 	/* LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E */,
and no key combination generates the left/right mirror image of that,
which is a legitimate character in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).
According to wikipedia, the two characters are HTML Entity ɛ and ɜ.
ɜ should be the one that is open to the left (i.e. like a '3'),
while ɛ should be open in the same direction as 'E'.

The code for the entry method seems to be at
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/modules/input/imipa.c?rev=1.6&view=markup .

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

libgtk2.0-common depends on no packages.

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-common recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.8.20-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 

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