xterm losing accent keys

When I press ` ^ ¨ or ~ and then space keys in xterm, it ignores the accents and puts a simple space. The same with composition of accented characters like é. What worse is: this behaviour can change back to normal and back to improper, and I have no clue as to upon exactly what? Seems that

Re: xterm losing accent keys

Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote: When I press ` ^ ¨ or ~ and then space keys in xterm, it ignores the accents and puts a simple space. The same with composition of accented characters like é. What worse is: this behaviour can change back to normal and back to improper, and I have no clue as to