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

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  I had fixed scim gtk immodule to support compose keys. Could you
please have a try?

Regards
James Su

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:45:10 +0800, James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
> 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 = 锚
> 
> 
> >
> ># 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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