Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Terminals that work with "compose" key?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt,
>>> xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based apps. But, it doesn't
>>> work in aterm or urxvt.
>
> [...]
>
>> I've never owned a keyboard with a "Compose" key, actually I
>> had never even heard of it.
>
> So how do you enter accented or non-latin characters or
> ligatures or the like?

I don't. The standard US English PC keyboard has nothing but A-Z,
numbers, a few symbols and standard punctuation. Typically, if someone
has an accented character in their name or address it is simply
entered in without the accent. Have to use "character map" type of
programs or alternate keyboard layouts to really enter any "special"
characters. Or the old alt-keypad method from DOS, I don't know if
that even works in Linux.

>> Wikipedia has some info about how you might go about setting
>> it up.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
>
> Um, since my compose key works fine with most applications, one
> might assume that I've already got it set up.

A quick googling says:

It looks like the deadkeys problem was a known bug and should have
been fixed in 1.0.1-r2 (there is aterm-1.0.1-deadkeys.patch in the
portage tree). What version did you try?

The rxvt-unicode website has a FAQ about the compose key not working:
http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#My_Compose_Multi_key_key_is_no_longe

I can't test it since I lack the necessary key.

Paul