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Timmer
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 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: Compose Key problems [SOLVED] |
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I'm having some trouble with my compose key, and I'm hoping someone can help me.
It works for some key combinations in some programs, but not for the same key combinations in other programs.
compose+e+' produces é in KMail, but compose+"+> will not produce ”. (but it does in Chrome!)
Similarly, in KMail, compose+a+o produces å, but in Chrome, compose+a+o does nothing, I needed to do compose+o+a to get å. (In KMail, compose+o+a does nothing...)
Why is this? How can I make things work the same way across my entire X environment (which is where I thought this was controlled).
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Timmer
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I've determined that all KDE applications use one set of compose key combinations, while non-KDE programs use another set (which happens to be the one I'm used to). I find this strange, because, on my desktop (as opposed to the laptop I'm using currently), KDE uses the same compose combinations as non-KDE programs.
Does this help give anyone a clue? It's at least given me some Google terms, but I haven't turned anything up yet. |
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Timmer
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:49 am Post subject: |
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It's been 2 years, and I mostly gave up, but this problem is bugging me again, so I'm giving it a bump, rather than posting it again.
Another example: <compose>.. in non-KDE programs gives me "…" but in KDE programs, it gives me "·". |
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sno35
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Hi
May be this can lead to something ? Mostly non-utf8 vs utf8 ?
| Code: | # pwd
/usr/share/X11/locale |
| Quote: | # grep '<a> <o>' */Compose
el_GR.UTF-8/Compose:<Multi_key> <a> <o> : "å" aring
iso8859-13/Compose:<Multi_key> <a> <o> : "\345" aring
iso8859-15/Compose:<Multi_key> <a> <o> : "\345" aring
iso8859-1/Compose:<Multi_key> <a> <o> : "\345" aring |
| Code: | # grep '<o> <a>' */Compose
en_US.UTF-8/Compose:<Multi_key> <o> <a> : "å" aring # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
en_US.UTF-8/Compose:<dead_acute> <Multi_key> <o> <a> : "ǻ" U01FB # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose:<Multi_key> <o> <a> : "å" aring # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose:<dead_acute> <Multi_key> <o> <a> : "ǻ" U01FB # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose:# <Multi_key> <acute> <o> <a> : "ǻ" U01FB # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
pt_BR.UTF-8/Compose:# <Multi_key> <apostrophe> <o> <a> : "ǻ" U01FB # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE |
Hth |
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Timmer
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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I was starting to get to the same place right before bed last night. It seemed like X is using utf-8 encoding, but KDE is over-ruling that to iso-8859-1. I was having trouble finding the setting for it though.
Since I'm using systemd, it seemed like the right place to set it would be in /etc/locale.conf, where it was in fact set correctly. However, when I ran the locale command, it appeared to be unset. I stumbled upon the Gentoo UTF-8 Guide, which gave me the instructions that worked: create /etc/env.d/02locale and set the locale in there.
Reboot, and my system is consistent! |
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