Comment 9 for bug 408651

Thanks commenters in #7 and #8, that is a very good analysis of the problems. On my fairly pedestrian USA layout I'm able to reproduce the set of keys in 2a.

I'm not sure why 2b is different; possibly there are locale settings or console-setup settings at play? Check /etc/default/console-setup and setxkbmap -print. `xkbcomp :0 -w0 -` might be worth comparing between the two setups. I haven't been able to reproduce that case, although I do notice that under one font, ẽ (e with tilde) looks identical to ē (e with bar); could a font issue be at play? Maybe we should focus this bug report on the irregularity of 2a, and if you still can reproduce 2b, open a new bug report.

I'm also able to confirm that <Compose>+"e"+<tilde> produces nothing for me, although <Compose>+<tilde>+"e" does. I don't hear sound, but that's probably the system bell, which I have turned off. Looking through the Compose file I see there are some discrepencies in how ã and ẽ are defined.