Bug 146451

Summary:	Missing Compose characters in X
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Peter West <pbw>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Peter West 2006-01-28 16:18:45 UTC

Only some Composed characters are available in Konsole, xterm or jedit, for example. While most of the common Latin characters are available, characters beyond Latin1, like the S and Z with caron, do not appear. On the console. on the other hand, they do.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2006-01-30 11:16:45 UTC

They do.

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:
[...]
<dead_caron> <Z>        : "Ž" U017D # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <Z>     : "Ž" U017D # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
<dead_caron> <z>        : "ž" U017E # LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <z>     : "ž" U017E # LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
<dead_caron> <U01b7>    : "Ǯ" U01EE # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EZH WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <U01b7> : "Ǯ" U01EE # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EZH WITH CARON
<dead_caron> <U0292>    : "ǯ" U01EF # LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <U0292> : "ǯ" U01EF # LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CARON
[...]
<dead_caron> <S>        : "Š" U0160 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <S>     : "Š" U0160 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
<dead_caron> <s>        : "š" U0161 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
<Multi_key> <c> <s>     : "š" U0161 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
<dead_abovedot> <dead_caron> <S>        : "Ṧ" U1E66 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<dead_abovedot> <Multi_key> <c> <S>     : "Ṧ" U1E66 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<Multi_key> <period> <dead_caron> <S>   : "Ṧ" U1E66 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<Multi_key> <period> <c> <S>    : "Ṧ" U1E66 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<dead_abovedot> <dead_caron> <s>        : "ṧ" U1E67 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<dead_abovedot> <Multi_key> <c> <s>     : "ṧ" U1E67 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<Multi_key> <period> <dead_caron> <s>   : "ṧ" U1E67 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE
<Multi_key> <period> <c> <s>    : "ṧ" U1E67 # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON AND DOT ABOVE

Comment 2 Peter West 2006-01-30 11:50:05 UTC

Thanks for clarifying this. Please note that the mapping is different from the VT mapping, accessible through dumpkeys --compose. In the KDE manuals relating to keyboards there was no documentation that I could see about Compose mappings, so I guess this is a bug in the documentation.

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2006-01-30 12:30:47 UTC

The Compose mechanism isn't related to KDE at all.

Comment 4 Peter West 2006-01-30 13:36:12 UTC

OK, but neither is XKB or Xorg/X11 for that matter. KDE takes it upon itself to handle keyboard specifications, and provides some minimal documentation of XKB features, because KDE users configuring keyboards need them. There was an enquiry about accessing accented characters from a US keyboard on the support.novell o.o.s-l.s lists a little while ago. It came from a Novell employee. If I can find it again, I'll post here. Point is, this stuff is hard to find.

Comment 5 Peter West 2006-01-30 14:20:56 UTC

Kim Groneman kgronemanNO@SPAMnovell.com
opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.kde
Subject: Extended ASCII characters