Package: emacs;
Reported by: Ian D. Leroux <idleroux <at> fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:22:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.2
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Ian D. Leroux <idleroux <at> fastmail.fm> To: 7380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#7380: 23.2; Dead keys misinterpreted in gtk emacs Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:18:50 -0500
Under X11 with the us_intl keyboard, dead keys are not correctly combined with the following characters. For instance <dead-acute> e, which ought to give é, instead produces the message "<dead-acute> is undefined" followed by an undecorated e. The problem is specific to emacs: all other applications in the same X11 session (Firefox, xterm, urxvt, miscellaneous gtk apps like exfalso) accept accented input typed with dead keys without special customization. This is a plain-vanilla install of emacs under pkgsrc. The auto-collected data reported below were generated by M-x report-emacs-bug from an emacs -Q instance displaying this behaviour. Workarounds: I can run emacs in a terminal, allowing xterm or urxvt to handle keyboard input. This gives me consistent keyboard behaviour at the price of the graphical comforts of gtk emacs. I can also activate iso-transl and have emacs handle the composition of characters from dead keys by its own internal mechanism, independent of X11, but then I get a subtly different keyboard layout in emacs relative to other software on the system. Thank you for any insights and assistance you may be able to supply, Ian Leroux In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64--netbsd, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-11-09 on spip.homeunix.net Windowing system distributor `The Xorg Foundation', version 11.0.10603000 configured using `configure '--srcdir=/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/editors/emacs/default/emacs-23.2' '--localstatedir=/var' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R7/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R7/lib' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-libiconv-prefix' '--without-libintl-prefix' '--prefix=/usr/pkg' '--build=x86_64--netbsd' '--host=x86_64--netbsd' '--infodir=/usr/pkg/info' '--mandir=/usr/pkg/man' 'build_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'host_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mfpmath=sse -msse3 -march=athlon64 -pipe -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -I/usr/X11R7/include/freetype2' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/X11R7/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R7/lib' 'LIBS=' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -I/usr/X11R7/include/freetype2'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: C value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <dead-acute> e M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return> Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. 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