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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:18:49PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
 
>  knekos : 10/09 12:44 : Incident created     RC2: There is 
> the same bug in the RC2 as in MDK8.2. My system is instaled 
> with English as a default language. Than I enable alternate 
> keybord layout for czech in KDE. Czech keyboard has several 
> dead keys. Only one of them works in RC2 and MDK8.2. My 
> friend reported me that in his system that is not MDK, has no 
> problem with this....

You provide too few information... what is the dead key that works,
and those that don't? What letters did you tried to type ?

However, it is probably not a keyboard problem, but a composing problem.

The keyboard sending the dead keys is not enough, XFree must also
know what a given combiantion produces.
That is defined in Compose files, that are used in a locale-dependent
way.
Default english locale uses iso-8859-1 encoding, that is, the Compose
file used is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose
which define only a few compose sequences for acute, grave, circumflex,
diaereis and tilde; there is no dead_caron or dead_ogonek etc
in iso-8859-1.
Also, even if there is dead_acute, only combinations with vowels are
defined, there is no definition allowing to type cacute for example.

So, for using the Czech character set, you should set your locale to either
an iso-8859-2 one, or to utf-8.

For example set to English UTF-8 trough localedrake, or editing
/etc/sysconfig/i18n replace "en_US" with "en_US.UTF-8"

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