can't compose all characters

[Juerd]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

While I can enter a character like ĝ (g with circumflex) in Konsole by typing compose, ^, g, the same doesn't work with gnome-terminal. And, as I just found out, Firefox.

I need these characters, but want to keep using a US Dvorak keyboard layout. Is there a way to fix compose, or perhaps another way to enter these characters?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 30 11:54:43 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/juerd
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux lanova 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What do you mean "to fix compose"? What compose key do you use the system, preferences, keyboard, options? Does it work with gedit?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Oh, but that's because this ticketing system apparently didn't get my email response.

Here's a paste:

From: Juerd Waalboer <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:14:39 +0200
To: Bug 98945 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug 98945] Re: can't compose all characters
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Sebastien Bacher skribis 2007-03-31 12:56 (-0000):
> What do you mean "to fix compose"? What compose key do you use the
> system, preferences, keyboard, options? Does it work with gedit?

By "fixing compose" I meant making it work with all characters that I
can compose in KDE applications.

I use the right alt key for compose.

Compose works with Gnome apps, including gedit, but only for some
characters. So far, the characters that do work, have all been in the
iso-8859-15 range. In KDE apps, I can also compose characters like the g
with acute accent.

Regards,
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe a combinaison not working. Do you get the bug on gnome-terminal only or dies it happen using gedit?

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Some composed characters that work in both kwrite+console and gedit+gnome-terminal:
ae - æ
"o - ö
"u - ü
th - þ
e= - €
(c - © # note that this is "(c" in GNOME programs, but "(c)" in KDE programs

Some composed characters that work only in the KDE programs, but not in the GNOME programs:
^g - ĝ
^h - ĥ
^c - ĉ
^s - ŝ
bu - ŭ
(5) - ⑤

Firefox behaves likes the gnome-programs.

Pasting the characters does work, just composing them is broken.

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Where I said "console", I meant "konsole"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a gnome-terminal bug if that happens with gedit also. Does it happen with KDE applications under GNOME?

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Indeed this bug is probably wider than gnome-terminal.

I can compose these characters fine in KDE programs that run under GNOME.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

This looks like bug #74360. A lot of compose key sequences don't work any more. It's an X11 problem, and I believe it to be specific to Ubuntu because these sequences worked for me on a Gentoo installation I was using until last year.

[Juerd (ubuntu-juerd)]

Apparently the problem is solved in gutsy.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Still a problem on gutsy and hardy

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

° (compose o o) works in KDE, but not for gnome apps or firefox