On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:00:08PM +0200, Guillermo GutiƩrrez Herrera wrote:
> look there:
> 
> - go to real console. (console-data configured and locales configured to UTF8)
> - type 'showcfont' and you can see accentuated keys
> - type 'dumpkeys | grep compose' and you can see the table 
> First+Second=Result,
> but all of results are in blank, ''
> - dump now the previous output to a file 'dumpkeys | grep compose > comp.txt',
> go to X and open it with gedit, the blanks chars are been converted to the
> correct form! (gedit notices that the file is on ISO8859-15 when it must be in
> UTF-8!!)
> 
> I wonder if the problem is at the "compose table", it should have 2 tables, 
> one
> for iso, another for unicode.

No, this is a limitation of Linux kernels, composition does not work
with UTF-8 encoding.

Denis

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