Multi-key and deadkey setups
Russell Shaw
rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Sun Jul 16 22:21:39 PDT 2006
No one in particular wrote:
> Hello----
>
> As part of the process of getting my laptop fully configured for Unicode
> and multilingual support, I have been working my way through multi-key
> and deadkey configurations. For the most part, I have been able to
> track down the information I need, though it´s been a long investigation
> through a mess of old and new documentation. Now, though, I am stuck
> with one last problem:
>
> I cannot figure out why some multi-key combinations in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose work and some do not. For
> example, the multi-key for the AE ligature works fine, the double-prime
> quotation marks below do not, the guillemots immediately below that work
> fine. It seems likely that somewhere there is another file controlling
> which of the key combinations in the Compose file are actually active,
> but I have not been able to determine where, or even if my hypothesis is
> correct.
>
> I´ve no problem displaying any of the characters I have tried, and
> inputting them is no problem via cut-and-paste. It´s only getting the
> key combinations to work that is defeating me.
>
> I hate dumping a question like this on a developer´s list, but I have
> run out of ideas. I´ve been working on this project off and on for
> months, and have exhausted my resources. It may be that the only people
> left who really understand how this works are the people who build it.
>
> I´m not even sure what configuration information would be relevant
> (apart from the most obvious: XkbLayout: en_US.utf8) but I´ll happily
> provide anything requested.
How are you displaying the characters? The font or renderer may have bugs.
You need to look at the raw key codes that come from the X server.
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