Re: Compose key and input method

From: Michael Tosch (eedmit_at_NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se)
Date: 08/10/05 

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:00:40 +0200

Hans Werner Strube, strube&physik3*gwdg*de wrote:
> Thomas Maier-Komor <maierkom@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
>>Hans Werner Strube, strube&physik3*gwdg*de schrieb:
>>
>>>On Solaris versions beyond 7, we always encountered difficulties with
>>>the Compose key. Locale is ISO-8859-1 based (en_US, de_DE). We use Sun's
>
> ...
>
>>I cannot verify the behaviour you are talking about under gnome on my
>>sparc. But I also had some weird effects concerning the compose key. I
>>use the same config (i.e. type 6 unix keyboard with us layout, but
>>german locale). Make sure you have all the available patches installed.
>>Additionally be sure to have sane settings /etc/default/init.
>>My values are:
>>
>>TZ=Europe/Berlin
>>CMASK=022
>>LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>>LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>>LC_MESSAGES=de
>>LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>>LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>>LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>
>
> Thanks, I think the effects were due to missing environment LANG and
> some undefined LC_..., which were caused by some long-ago tweaking
> required with some old programs.
>

LANG is old style (using the old locale names), and LC_ALL is new style.
Old applications want LANG, new applications want LC_ALL or the above
LC_* sub-types.

Unfortunately,
the above solution does not help our customers, because it switches
some applications to German dialogs. Our users want English dialogs
but still be able to do a Compose o " or similar.

IMHO GTK should allow character composition even in C locale, and pass
it to the application (which may or may not correctly display it). 

-- 
Michael Tosch @ hp : com

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