GNU bug report logs - #7380
23.2; Dead keys misinterpreted in gtk emacs

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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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Message #31 received at 7380-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 7380-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7380: 23.2; Dead keys misinterpreted in gtk emacs
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:26:16 -0400

"Ian D. Leroux" wrote:

> The problem has now been identified: due to a configuration error in the
> en_US.UTF-8 locale settings in NetBSD's default xorg installation,
> libX11 was not loading the new callback based XIM apis.  Most software
> was falling back to the older open/close api, and thus continuing to
> support dead keys, while emacs gave up on XIM entirely and fell back to
> XLookupString.  As far as I'm concerned, this bug can now be closed.


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