dead keys not working at all?

[Adrien "Pied" Piérard]

Hello everyone.

I have just installed a FreeBSD 8.2 release with X.Org X Server 1.7.7
I tried several layouts and variants, but it seems that I cannot get
any dead key work.

Even though `xev` shows that the keys are read
(say, "state 0x80, keycode 25 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES")
typing those keys followed by a vowel like "e" does not give "é" (or
"ê", or "è", etc) as I would expect, but just "e".
This behavior happens with all the X applications I could try (not
restricted to some given toolkit).

This is the first time I ever have this problem, and have no idea
related to how to solve it or investigate it more.

FWIW, I have the following in my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "DontZap" "false"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "kibe"
EndSection

("kibe" is my own variant, but I tried other variants too)

Cheers,

P!