Graphic accents in vocals (èéàú...) do not appear

[plagasul]

I am on Telegram Desktop 0.9.10 under Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela Cinnamon

Spanish/catalan graphic accents on vocals, such as é è ú.... but also ü, etc, are simply not written when writing a message. They are not shown on text input, and neither when the message is sent and appears in the shared part of the screen.

Graphic accents work without any problem in any other part of the system, without exceptions, at least that I come accross.

Thank you

[mfrasca]

but why was the issues closed while we only have a workaround?
shouldn't it be closed after it's solved in the distributed software?

[Selhar]

Had no problems on fedora 25, changed to fedora 27 and had to do the workaround.

[mikaelmello]

Happened to me on Elementary OS 0.4.1, @luiarhs solution worked for me.

[Henriquelay]

Confirmed, @luiarhs working on elementary OS 0.4.1, Telegram 1.2.17

[mateusdeap]

Tried @luiarhs workaround on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 and Telegram 1.2.17, but it did not work at all.

[mfrasca]

@auchri , you closed this issue as a duplicate, but you didn't mention of which issue this is a duplicate.

[Lonami]

@mfrasca, @Aokromes mentioned #1041 above.

[viniciushsantana]

Before 1.3, export QT_IM_MODULE=xim used to work fine (except for ç). After the update, no special characters work, even with the IBus workaround.

Using Linux Mate with English (US, international with dead keys) working fine in every other app.

[mateusdeap]

I have the same setup as @vegbrasil concerning OS (mine being version 18.04, just to be specific) and keyboard. The only way I got it to work was downloading directly from the telegram site. Neither the snap package or the installations available in the ubuntu store or Mate Boutique work.

[mfrasca]

then maybe better invite followup on #1041 adding comments on a closed issue will not have much impact

[sjmuniz]

I've found a "fix". The problem seems to be related to the Input Method. From https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1630241 I've created a shell script to start telegram: $ cat bin/telegram.sh export QT_IM_MODULE=xim cd $HOME/Downloads/Telegram ./Telegram & to comply with the maintainer requests I am using US international with dead keys distribution. However it is odd that even when I have no IM method configured, and defaults to XIM, I need to pass this variable in order to inform QT I am using XIM.

smuniz@d630:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial using smuniz@d630:~/Downloads/Telegram$ cat ~/.xinputrc

im-config(8) generated on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 03:55:41 -0300

run_im none

im-config signature: 047389d2485e586bf71ebb0c8d18fa12 -

smuniz@d630:~/Downloads/Telegram$ im-config -l xim smuniz@d630:~/Downloads/Telegram$ im-config -m default none none

none

Regards.

[Selhar]

Still happens in fedora 29.

[JDevezas]

Having this same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 although it only started to happen one day or two after the installation (not entirely sure on this).

The keyboard layout is portuguese (PT) as well as the language itself.

Installed Telegram through the "Ubuntu Software" app

[Henriquelay]

I fixed by download through the Telegram Desktop site link. The one I was using (trough software center) wasn't even updated to 1.4.x

[vmgustavo]

I had the same problem here when installed using Snap. I installed from the Telegram Desktop website and the problem is gone.

[lucaszrz]

Happened to me on Elementary OS Juno, telegram installed from the Telegram Desktop Website, @luiarhs solution still working.

[sergiogarciadev]

This can be solved for the Snap on Ubuntu, setting the QT_IM_MODULE environment variable to xim.

This can be done editing the /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/telegram-desktop_telegramdesktop.desktop file.

Change the line:

Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/telegram-desktop_telegramdesktop.desktop /snap/bin/telegram-desktop -- %u

to

Exec=env QT_IM_MODULE=xim env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/telegram-desktop_telegramdesktop.desktop /snap/bin/telegram-desktop -- %u

[mazulo]

I was having this issue and tried a LOT of things, like rebuild my locale, running with QT_IM_MODULE=xim, installing ibus and making some adjustments to its preferences, install the official package from telegram.org but nothing worked. I was still getting these weird chars instead of accents:

it was supposed to be: e num é que é memo

By the end what solved, for whatever reason, was to uninstall the package (installed by yay -S telegram-desktop-bin) and install again with sudo pacman -S telegram-desktop

[fbfdsouza]

people, you can follow the steps from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slbdgsae3Bo I had the same issue also, it is pretty straight-forward to solve that.

[ks7000]

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS: all OK! (iBus installed and configured).

[arimourao]

Unfortunately, this is still an issue! I'm on Kubuntu 19.10 on a Portuguese ABNT keyboard. No accents at all. Please reopen this issue, this is still affecting many people. I'm currently using the version 1.8.15.

[JimmyOlano]

Unfortunately, this is still an issue! I'm on Kubuntu 19.10 on a Portuguese ABNT keyboard. No accents at all. Please reopen this issue, this is still affecting many people. I'm currently using the version 1.8.15.

Español: Yo escribí un artículo al respecto, en castellano

Português: Eu escrevi um artigo sobre isso, em espanhol.

English: I wrote an article about it, in Spanish.

https://colaboratorio.net/jimmy/program/2019/configurando-ibus-telegram-ubuntu-18/

[clxjaguar]

I also have this problem, in 2020. The alt-tab / click on window methods of switching programs is doing a difference also for me.

[Selhar]

This still happens and needs the ibus workaround. No other application has this issue. I only have one keyboard layout in my system.

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