Re: SuSE 9.3 Compose keys (right shift + ctrl)

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mike FABIAN wrote:

Hello Mike,

thanks for the quick response.

> Peter Niessen <[email protected]> ¤µ¤ó¤Ï½ñ¤­¤Þ¤·¤¿:
>
>> until SuSE 9.2, it was possible to use compose keys (right-shift +
>> right-control) to compose diarhesis, accents, etc. if UTF-8 was
>> de-selected. In 9.3 not anymore! How can I activate this feature
>> again?
>
> I cannot reproduce your problem.
>
> First of all, you don't need to de-select UTF-8 to use Compose, it
> works in UTF-8 even better than in the legacy locales because UTF-8
> can represent a lot more special characters than the legacy locales.

OK, I switched on UTF-8.

>
> To find out why it doesn't work for you, can you please supply the
> following information:
>
> - Check if a Compose key is defined in your keyboard layout
>  with the command 'xmodmap -pke | grep Multi_key'. The default
>  on SuSE Linux in recent years should look like this:
>
>    linux@g78:~> xmodmap -pke | grep Multi_key
>    keycode 109 = Control_R Multi_key
>    keycode 113 = ISO_Level3_Shift Multi_key
>    keycode 116 = Super_R Multi_key
>    linux@g78:~>

I lack the 113:

[hegel] ~ > xmodmap -pke | grep Multi_key
keycode 109 = Control_R Multi_key
keycode 116 = Super_R Multi_key


>
> "Multi_key" is the compose key, i.e. by default it is on
> Shift+RightControl, Shift+AltGr, and Shift+RightWindowsKey.
>
> - Is only a special key combination not working on your
>  system or does Compose fail to work at al for you?
>  If only a special key combination fails, which one?

All fail. Shift-R_Ctrl "a results in plain "a, not "aehh".
>
> - What locale exactly are you using? Please give the output of
>  the command 'locale'.

[hegel] ~ > locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=



>
> - Is the environment variable XMODIFIERS set?
>  Check with 'env | grep XMODIFIERS'.
>
>  It should be either unset or set to '@im=local'.

[hegel] ~ > echo $XMODIFIERS
@im=SCIM

>
> - Check whether a program which is known to support compose,
>  for example 'xterm', reads the correct compose table:
>
> mfabian@magellan:~$ XMODIFIERS=@im=local LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 strace -eopen -f xterm 2>&1 | grep -i ompose
> open("/home/mfabian/.XCompose", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/var/X11R6/compose-cache/l2_030_35fe9fba", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 6
> mfabian@magellan:~$

Gives nothing. I have only de_DE.utf-8. I also tried with en_US.utf-8.
>
> You see here that the compose table which is read in de_DE.UTF-8
> locale is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.

This file exists, also contains the right stuff, it appears.
>
> In de_DE@euro locale, a different compose table is read:
>
> mfabian@magellan:~$ XMODIFIERS=@im=local LANG=de_DE@euro strace -eopen
> -f xterm 2>&1 | grep -i ompose
> open("/home/mfabian/.XCompose", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/var/X11R6/compose-cache/l2_030_23d0b406", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 5
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 6
> mfabian@magellan:~$
>
> If you compare /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose, you will see that the
> latter is much shorter and supports far fewer characters than the
> UTF-8 version.
>

Thanks again,

Cheers, Peter.
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