dead keys don't work

[Pauli Virtanen]

Binary package hint: emacs22

Dead keys appear not to work in emacs22, at least when using a Finnish keyboard layout.

This is in current Ubuntu Intrepid (but IIRC was also present in Hardy).

To reproduce: Activate Finnish keyboard layout (or some keyboard layout that has dead keys such as USA International), and press a dead key combination (eg. AltGr+~ or similar). In other programs you can type another key after this, to produce ~ or ñ. In emacs22 only message "<dead-tilde> is undefined" appears in the minibuffer. Same with a fresh guest account.

A workaround is noted here: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/d5b1ab43f0ec5203
Basically, (load-library "iso-transl") fixes this. I think dead keys should simply work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu, so could this stanza please be added in the default Emacs startup scripts (assuming it has no adverse effects)?

Package versions:

emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu1

xev reports the following to occur when a dead key is pressed:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    root 0x1a6, subw 0x0, time 28180805, (953,693), root:(959,742),
    state 0x80, keycode 35 (keysym 0xfe53, dead_tilde), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7e) "~"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

[Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard)]

Dead keys don't work for me in Emacs23, Ubuntu Lucid, Norwegian keyboard layout. Worked fine before (on Ubuntu <= Karmic).