Hi Stefan, la 11/17/2009 11:22 PM Stefan Monnier skribis: >> ** Dead-key and composite character processing is done in the standard >> X11R6 manner (through the default "input method" using the >> /usr/lib/X11/locale/*/Compose databases of key combinations). I.e. if >> it works in xterm, it should also work in Emacs now. >> This has long since stopped working. >> > > I don't use dead keys, but I use the compose key extensively, and it > works just fine in my Emacs. Can you give more detail to try and > reproduce your problem? > what details, I don't really know. It might be Ubuntu specific, because it appeared long ago when I switched from SuSE to Ubuntu. At the time I figured it must have to do with a newer Emacs, because xterm and all Gtk and Qt apps had and have no problem. Sorry I didn't report it then, I guess this is two years back. I think compose is not pertinent, because IMHO that does the combining in the X-server and sends the combined char, as though you had a key for it, like German äöüß is no problem even without loading iso-transl. I'm attaching my very personal keymap (which covers my normal German external keyboard, the built in American one, with Z and Y switched German style and Esperanto letters). I've stuffed in all dead-keys, like AltGr-, for cedilla, AltGr-Shift-, for ogonek and AltGr-^ for circumflex. I load it with xkbcomp -xkb .X/keymap/daniel $DISPLAY, but you could just as well just set one dead key with xmodmap IIRC. coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn Daniel Pfeiffer -- lerne / learn / apprends / lär dig / ucz się Esperanto: http://lernu.net / http://ikurso.net