Comment 16 for bug 21637

There might still be some problems left in hardy. I upgraded from gutsy, where I was able to write polytonic Greek with XIM after I replaced the Compose file with a modified one. After upgrading to hardy (beta -- now up to date as of 2008-04-20) I found that I was not able to type dasia or psili anymore (with XIM, previously shift+ä and shift+ö + plus letter produced the breathings -- ä and ö being the two keys left from L in my keyboard) -- pressing them did not produce anything.

Then I modified /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr file, keys AC10 and AC11 to

  key <AC10> { [ dead_acute, dead_dasia ] }; // ´ ̓
  key <AC11> { [ dead_grave, dead_psili ] }; // `

According to a freedesktop.org bug (unfortunately I don't have the link right here, if I recall, Simos Xenitellis who also subscribes to this bug, commented/opened it.

This didn't change anything.

Then I changed dead_dasia to U0313 and dead_psili to U0314 -- Now I am able to type the breathing marks, but they don't combine with other accents -- acute is just written over the breathing, for instance.

I seems that the fixes that are in hardy are not complete. What has changed since gutsy, where I had perfect output, just after modifying the Compose file?