.XCompose problems

[Werner LEMBERG]

> My ~/.XCompose file has stopped working.  I've simply copied
> /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 and added these four lines at the
> very beginning:
> 
>   <Multi_key> <minus> <greater>     : "→"
>   <Multi_key> <minus> <less>        : "←"
>   <Multi_key> <minus> <asciicircum> : "↑"
>   <Multi_key> <minus> <v>           : "↓"
> 
> It seems that something else (SCIM?) is overwriting the data from
> ~/.XCompose...  How can I debug this?

This one I can answer now: It's a feature.  See

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=650539&aid=1513344&group_id=108454


     Werner