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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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.

I know.  I'm here in the US and have normal USian keyboards.

> Typically, if someone has an accented character in their name
> or address it is simply entered in without the accent.

That just seems a bit parochial. :)

> 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.


> 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?

Great! Not sure why I didn't find that when I was Googling
earlier. It looks like I'm running 1.0.1-r1.  I'll give -r2 a
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

Yea, I found that -- it wasn't really all that helpful.

Note to FAQ editors: Saying "X is set wrong" isn't all that
helpful if you don't bother to say what the right setting is...

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