GNU bug report logs - #14044
24.2; Emacs 24 and dead keys in Fedora 18

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques <alexandre.laguejacques <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:59:01 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 15135, 15891, 17928

Found in versions 24.2, 24.3, 24.3.92

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques <alexandre.laguejacques <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14044: 24.2; Emacs 24 and dead keys in Fedora 18
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
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