I am using cwm and ksh and at present my compose key work in st and in gvim, but not in xterm. I am on current updated a few weeks ago.
/NilsOla On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:18:41PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Ian, > > ropers wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:41:45AM +0200: > > > While I'm personally only or mainly interested in Alt+numeric input, > > if altnumd existed, it would probably be comparatively easy to then > > extend it and add support for Alt+u0000 thru Alt+u10ffff, with the U > > becoming a reserved keyword unambiguously signifying that what follows > > will be a Unicode code point between U+0000 and U+10FFFF. > > There is no reason to make it different. ASCII is a subset of Unicode, > with the same numbering. So the "U" looks redundant to me. > > > There's a huge competence gap between us, > > Quite likely. I'm so clueless that right now, i can't even seem to get > Compose to work even though i'm sure i had it working in the past. > This is on amd64-current, inside xterm(1) and ksh(1): > > $ locale > LANG= > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > $ setxkbmap -query -v -v -v > Setting verbose level to 8 > locale is en_US.UTF-8 > Trying to load rules file ./rules/base... > Trying to load rules file /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/rules/base... > Success. > Applied rules from base: > rules: base > model: pc105 > layout: de > Trying to build keymap using the following components: > keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwertz) > types: complete > compat: complete > symbols: pc+de+inet(pc105)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp) > geometry: pc(pc105) > rules: base > model: pc105 > layout: de > > At this point, the caps key toggles caps lock, i.e. pressing > > caps a caps a > > results in the input "Aa". > > $ setxkbmap -option compose:caps -v -v -v > Setting verbose level to 8 > locale is en_US.UTF-8 > Trying to load rules file ./rules/base... > Trying to load rules file /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/rules/base... > Success. > Applied rules from base: > rules: base > model: pc105 > layout: de > options: compose:caps > Trying to build keymap using the following components: > keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwertz) > types: complete > compat: complete > symbols: pc+de+inet(pc105)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)+compose(caps) > geometry: pc(pc105) > > Now, the caps key no longer toggles caps lock and becomes a dead key, > i.e. pressing > > caps , c caps " a > > results in the input "ca". However, the resulting input is really > ASCII-c ASCII-a rather than the expected c-cedille a-umlaut. > It looks like Compose works well enough to discard the , and ", > but not well enough to actually generate non-ASCII characters. > > Somewhat grumpy today, > Ingo -- Nils Ola Nilsson, 🐞 email [email protected], tel +46-70-374 69 89
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