[SCIM] Compose keys don't function with SCIM's gtk immodule

[James Su]

Hi,
  I know nothing about compose keys, does anyone can give me more 
detailed information?

Regards
James Su

Yukiko Bando wrote:

>Hi,
>
>When I switch to French keyboard layout or my custom Xmodmap, compose keys 
>(aka dead keys) don't seem to work either using SCIM's gtk immodule or 
>SCIM-XIM.
>
>My environments:
>- KDE 3.2.3, Xorg-x11-6.7, Mandrake 10.1 cooker
>- Locale=en_US.UTF-8
>- Japanese 106 keyboard
>- dead_circumflex (^) is assigned to keycode 34 (next to "P") in French 
>keyboard layout.
>
>1) In gedit
>a) using SCIM's gtk immodule 
>^ x 2 (press ^ twice) =  nothing happens
>^ + e (press ^ then e) = e
>
>b) using UIM's gtk immodule 
>^ x 2  = ^
>^ + e = ê
>
># Compose keys work fine.
>
>2) In kwrite
>a) when SCIM-XIM running
>^ x 2  = nothing happens
>^ + e = e
>
>b) when SCIM-XIM not running 
>^ x 2  = ^^ 
>^ + e = ^e
>
># There's no way to input accented characters using compose keys in qt 
>applications at the moment.  (Thomas Quinot's patch is not applied in 
>Mandrake...?)
>
># Tokunaga-san posted this link in UIM's mailing list a while ago. (FYI)
>"Dead keys under Linux and X11"
>http://wauug.erols.com/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/
>
>I wonder if this is a problem specific to Japanese keyboard or my distro.  Can 
>anyone try to see if it works?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Yukiko
>
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