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qt4-x11 package

  1. Bug #487997
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 487997

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In , Simos (simos-redhat-bugs) wrote :

GTK+ applications have their own copy of the compose sequence table, so in a default GNOME environment (without SCIM, without setting the GTK_IM_MODULE variable), dead keys should work irrespective of other settings.

Last time I checked for QT applications, they look up the XOrg compose table files, which are located at /usr/share/X11/locale, and the file chosen depends on your current locale.

See the discussion at bug 477552 for some more hints.

In my case (I have GNOME/Ubuntu 8.10/partial installation of QT apps), accents work.
When I use 'strace' on a QT app, I get

access("/usr/share/X11/locale/el_GR.UTF-8/Compose", R_OK) = 0

which shows that the compose file is read successfully for me.