Subject: bug#14044: 24.2; Emacs 24 and dead keys in Fedora 18

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:13:19 -0400

>> value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF8
> Could someone look into why "utf8" locales cause such problems, even
> though "utf-8" locales work just fine?

For what it's worth I can't reproduce it, here.
I did the following:

    xmodmap -e "keysym Left = dead_grave"
    LANG="fr_CH.UTF8" emacs -Q

and then tried dead-grave followed by e and it inserted "è" just as
it should.  This was on Debian testing.

        Stefan