Re: atypical compose key

["Etsushi Kato" <ek kato gmail com>]

On 9/29/06, Andriy Gapon <avg icyb net ua> wrote:
> on 28/09/2006 19:15 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > on 28/09/2006 19:00 Etsushi Kato said the following:
> >> I forgot to mention that using XIM (without any XIM server, i.e.
> >> setting XMODIFIER= im=none) may work for your situation
> >> (GTK_IM_MODULE=xim).
> >
> > I've actually googled up this advice but it did not work for me: when I
> > type <Compose><C><=> I get "=" instead of expected EuroSign and also
> > when I switch (through XKB) to Ukrainian or Russian keyboard layout and
> > type some text I get some funny pairs of characters, something vaguely
> > looking like what I was getting when I viewed Unicode/UTF-8 text as a
> > single byte text.
>
> [this message is intentionally in UTF-8]
>
> Hmm. I actually have to correct myself on XMODIFIER= im=none and
> GTK_IM_MODULE=xim — it works!

Fine :)

> but not entirely :-(

Hmm...

> I was getting "=" instead of euro sign because of some problem with
> ~/.XCompose, once I moved it out of the way compose sequence started to
> work as expected, but there seems to be some problem with encoding. Not
> sure if that problem is somewhere in X or GTK, but I suspect the latter.

What is the enconding of your ~/.XCompose?  It should be UTF-8 if it
is used in uk_UA.UTF-8 environment.  If its encoding is uk_UA.KOI8-U,
you can get funny characters.

> When I start gedit like follows:
> env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim gedit
> [XMODIFIER/XMODIFIERS setting does not make any difference]
>
> and type my favorite <Compose><C><=> I get the following 3-symbol garbage:
> Б┌╛
> [U+0411 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BE][U+250C BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND
> RIGHT][U+255B BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE]
>
> instead of expected € [U+20AC EURO SIGN].
>
> Again, I am doing this in UTF-8 locale (I tried my native uk_UA.UTF-8
> and en_US.UTF-8). Looks like some double-recoding ?

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Etsushi Kato
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