Bug 141567

Summary:	Compose key not working with danish characters with en_US.UTF-8
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jens Axboe <axboe>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Description Jens Axboe 2006-01-05 12:22:57 UTC

I always use us keyboards with my computers, and I recently got a new laptop where  I chose to use the compose key in X to type the danish characters. However, with the default setup, only 'æ' (ae) worked. 'å' (aring) and 'ø' (oslash) didn't work. If I switch to en_US.iso8859-1 instead it works as expected.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2006-01-05 13:43:56 UTC

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:
[...]
<Multi_key> <o> <a>     : "å" U00E5 # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
[...]
<Multi_key> <slash> <o> : "ø" U00F8 # LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE

Works for me. Maybe you did use it in the different order ("... <a> <o>" and "... <o> <slash>") which is not specified in the UTF-8 compose file and only in the Latin1 Compose file?

Comment 2 Jens Axboe 2006-01-05 13:48:41 UTC

Could be, I'll retry that when I'm one my notebook.

But isn't it then a bug that the compose sequences aren't the same? Why would it be compose a + a in iso8859-1 and compose o + a in utf (and similar for oslash)?

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2006-01-05 14:12:15 UTC

You can call it a bug. I prefer to call it a change. :-)

The en_US.UTF-8 Compose file is a (nice) try to merge all the Compose files for the legacy encodings, which is/was not easy because of many conflicts. :-( Therefore I recommend to most people, which use the Compose mechanism, to use a user Compose file instead and adjust it to your needs.

--> $HOME/.XCompose

Most users begin with an empty Compose file, which makes starting of X programs even faster. :-) Is this something you can live with?

Comment 4 Jens Axboe 2006-01-05 14:16:22 UTC

Yes. ~/.XCompose would be perfect, I wasn't aware that this option existed! I trust I just fill mirror what the locale/xxx/Compose file contains, eg add my 3 characters to what I want?

I'll resolve this bug as WONTFIX then.

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2006-01-05 14:20:06 UTC

> Yes. ~/.XCompose would be perfect, I wasn't aware that this option existed!

Sure. Nearly nobody knows it.

> I trust I just fill mirror what the locale/xxx/Compose file contains, eg add > my 3 characters to what I want?

Exactly. :-)

Comment 6 Jens Axboe 2006-01-05 14:21:30 UTC

Great thanks Stefan, that even allows me to define much better compose sequences for these three (often used in dk mails) characters.