A question about locales

[iandoug]

Hi

Still struggling to get my compose key to work, apparently
# Import default rules from the system Compose file
include "%L"

goes to look for the Compose file in my locale folder.

My locales are

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LANG=en_ZA.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ALL=

But I have no en_ZA folder under locales

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 ll /usr/share/X11/locale/
total 392
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 C
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Oct  7  2023 am_ET.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 armscii-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31977 Sep  2  2024 compose.dir
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 cs_CZ.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 el_GR.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2  2024 en_US.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 fi_FI.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 georgian-academy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 georgian-ps
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2023 ibm-cp1133
(etc)

Should there be an en_ZA.utf8 folder there?

Thanks, Ian

[charles17]

Did you read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localizati ... ic_locales ?

[iandoug]

Thanks, I reviewed that page, everything was already set up. I redid the steps anyway, no change.

Compose function was working fine for years on this box, then some update broke it and I can't get it fixed so exploring all options ... even plugged my old MS Natural keyboard in to see if it was hardware-related.

I don't know which update broke it ... I went a few months without writing research papers so did not notice it being broken. I mostly use it for custom characters.

It may have been the "profile" switch, or some KDE thing ...

I have Compose key set on LeftWin. Do I need to set any flags ant the "Alt + Ctrl" section of KDE's key bindings?

FWIW I ran qxkb (viewtopic-t-1172807-highlight-.html) which managed to fix it temporarily, but broke the key refresh rate, when I reset that in KDE settings, then compose stopped working again.

I just ran it again, it prints a bunch of stuff to screen including below, then stops/hangs.

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Set layout :  "us"
 QXKB:XKB args  "-model pc104 -layout us -variant   -option compose:lwin"
 QXKB:setxkbmap argumetns :  ("-model", "pc104", "-layout", "us", "-variant", "", "", "-option", "compose:lwin")
 QXKB:setxkbmap result :  0
 QXKB:XKB  set
 QXKB:Set delay
 QXKB:xset argument :  ("r", "rate", "1000", "1")

(refresh rate broken again ...)

Current keyboard is KeyChron running my own key layout, but QMK tells OS that it is generic US.

After running that I see Compose works again so now need to persuade qxkb to set refresh rate properly ... 1 refresh per second not gonna do it

So this is some software config issue, but how to fix? .....

Thanks, Ian