Please ignore the message, after 2 weeks I finally found a solution just after mailing you.
The problem was that the locale en_US.UTF-8 had been taken from the list of "localedef --list-archive", but the directory was still there, and I had no clue that there had been such a deletion. After a hopeless localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8, everything is working.
Sorry for bothering you :-)
-Federico
Federico Zenith ha scritto:
Hi everybody,
First time I write to the list so please don't crucify me if say something utterly stupid.
I used to utilise a custom keyboard layout that could type all characters in ASCII, Latin-1, and Latin Extended A. I needed this because I usually write in Italian, English, Norwegian and Esperanto - and there is no Latin-n that allows typing all of them. The keyboard layout with .Xmodmap files is at http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/zenith/klavaro/linuxkla.html .
To use utf-8, I had to set the environment variable LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 . This worked for a few months, and I was quite happy with that.
My problem starts a couple of weeks ago. After my holidays I ran a major update of the system (that did _not_ involve xfree itself though), and afterwards the dead keys and the Compose key did not work anymore. In KDE apps, it became impossible to type even �, �, �, �, � and all other Latin-1 characters, while Latin Extended A characters that were not obtained through dead keys were still typable. I noticed that the behavioural change did not occur in the text console, however it did in twm (the window manager that is used to test whether xfree is correctly configured...). I came to the conclusion that this weird behavior is somehow due to some problem in xfree. Now I have set [EMAIL PROTECTED], a latin-9 set that works fine as a temporary solution.
The same problem occurred on two machines, at home and at work; I asked later a friend of mine to reproduce it on his laptop, and the same pattern was shown, so it's not a machine-specific issue.
All systems were running under Linux Gentoo, with xfree 4.3.0
Any clues?
Thanks for your help -Federico Zenith
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