Dead key quotes not working properly

[Olli Helenius]

Binary package hint: emacs23

When using the USA international keyboard layout (with dead keys), it is not possible to insert a single (') or a double (") quote. Normally this can be done by pressing the appropriate quote key followed by a space.

In Karmic's emacs23 this doesn't insert a quote character but a ¨ (dead_diaeresis?) instead of a double quote and ´ (acute?) instead of a single quote.

This used to work in Jaunty and older.

xterm has the same problem, so this might actually be a bug in the input driver but I'm not quite sure about that..

Here's a workaround. It's not perfect, though.

(defun insert-dquote ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "\""))
(defun insert-squote ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "'"))

(global-set-key "¨" 'insert-dquote)
(global-set-key "´" 'insert-squote)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 30 20:28:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: emacs23
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[Pander (pander)]

On Maverik it works for '+e to get é but e+' does not work. This also applies for other diacritics and other letters.

I'm using emacs under GNOME and it should support all dead key combinations supported by GNOME.

[Pander (pander)]

Please also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/493766