XCompose: How to map a combination composed by a "basic" character & a character defined in a private use area?

Dear xorgers, I have already mapped without problem characters defined in a private use area in my ~/.XCompose file like this: : "" Ue1ad But now I have problems by mapping a non-spacing mark (or diacritic) combined with a basic character like the Greek iota. I have t

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, dear xorgers, Thanks again for this important precision! Adding include "%L" at the beginning of my ~/.XCompose has solves this problem. Best, Pierre-Luc Le 02/04/2019 à 17:50, Ilya Anfimov a écrit : A possible explanation is that you didn't added include "%L" at the beginn

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

when env XMODIFIERS='' GTK_IM_MODULE=xim libreoffice is launched. It is just a small problem but I would but helpfull to understand why some dead keys works and other not when env XMODIFIERS='' GTK_IM_MODULE=xim libreoffice is launched. Thanks again. Best, Pierre-Luc Le

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, dear Walter, dear all, thanks for your precisions! Since it can cause problems with updates, I will try with the first possibilities that Ilya kindly mentioned and let modifications in /etc/profile aside. I would like also to know if there are possibilities for using directly the

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Thanks for your answers! I do not have ideas if Ilya or Walter is right for the configuration of /etc/profile... Do others have an idea? Thanks again and sorry if I am bothering you. Le 18/03/2019 à 17:57, Ilya Anfimov a écrit : please note that /etc/profile is the system-wide profile. do n

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, dear ĸen, dear all, Thanks for your messages. The font that I am using with this keys is Junicode. A big thank you to Ilya!!! In my terminal, I have entered env XMODIFIERS='' GTK_IM_MODULE=xim libreoffice LibreOffice opens and I can type all the compose keys that I have entered in ~

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear ĸen, dear all, Thanks for your answer and your interest! I have mapped it for Frecnh-azerty but would like to make German qwertz and English qwerty versions for other Egyptologists by putting it for example on my Gitlab account. The Yogh is used by some online databases instead of the m

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

key { [colon,slash, U010D, U010C ] }; // : / č Č key { [ exclam, section, U2E17, U00B1 ] }; // ! § ⸗ ± }; Thanks a lot for your patience, Best, Pierre-Luc Le 14/03/2019 à 15:09,

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

pString gives 3 bytes: (69 cc af) "i̯" XmbLookupString gives 3 bytes: (cc af 69) "̯i" Thanks again and sorry for all these messages. Best, Pierre-Luc Le 13/03/2019 à 19:32, Ilya Anfimov a écrit : On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 03:20:00PM +0100, Pierre-Luc Angles wrote: now I

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

ou but I do not see what I could do now. Thanks again! Best, Pierre-Luc Le 13/03/2019 à 15:04, Pierre-Luc Angles a écrit : Dear Ilya, dear all, Thanks again for this important remark. My ~/.XCompose file is then the following: : "i̯" : "u̯" : "ı͗" : "I͗&

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, dear all, Thanks again for this important remark. My ~/.XCompose file is then the following: : "i̯" : "u̯" : "ı͗" : "I͗" : "č̣" : "Č̣" : "s̱" : "S̱" : "H̱" : "h̭" : "H̭" My /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB is the following: i_breve_below :100050F5 u_breve_below

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, dear all, Thanks for your quick and nice answer. So would you recommend me to use, for my XKeysymDB file, 7bit characters (e.g. 185 to 18F) instead of the last positions of allowed ones (i.e. 8bit characters 1FF5 to 1FFF) or would recommend other positions like priva

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear Ilya, Thanks a lot for your interesting advices. Le 12/03/2019 à 15:16, Ilya Anfimov a écrit : You are probably right. Keysyms does not get added automatically by naming it, and I don't see any mention of i_breve_below and so on in standard keysymdef.h , which is the source of the defaul

Re: Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear ĸen, dear all, Thanks a lot for your nice and long answer. In the meantime, I have also found another thread in the archives of this list that could be also relevant for my problem: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2013-February/055490.html and https://lists.freedesktop.org/

Problem with mapping a key to multiple characters (Unicode + diacritic symbol)

Dear list-members, I allow me to write to you because I am now creating / mapping two different keyboard layouts, one for the transliteration of Ancient Egyptian and the other for a special Greek polytonic keyboard used by people reading ancient Greek documents. I have problems with these two