Hi Richard, Have you checked that the versions of xterm and emacs are compiled with support for i18n input? There might be alternate versions available for Slackware (also my first linux distro), or try to compile them from source. Not running Slackware myself, so I can only guess what's wrong...
Troy On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 14:49 -0500, Richard Lemieux wrote: > Hi, > > I would need a few pointers to online documents explaining clearly the chain > of > transformations going from keycodes in Linux, to the X11 codes and then to > whatever is used in xterm and Emacs. I have got a lot of partial information > but > I still can't use that to solve my problem. > > The last time I had XFree86 running as my X11 server - something like four > years > ago, I had managed to be able to enter European accented character in all > parts > of Linux including xterm, Emacs and so on. SCIM also worked fine on the > xterm > and Emacs with that setup. I could enter Chinese file names if I wished. > > Since I migrated to Xorg, I have never managed to get SCIM to work in a Xterm > or > in Emacs and worse even just have the compose key work in Emacs. I have been > able to make those work intermittently but the whole capability breaks down > the > next time I reboot. > > I can't recall all the things I have tried based on examples I got from > forums. > Of course I tried IBUS but that is not better than SCIM for me. > > I am running Slackware. This is what I run since I started using Linux in > the > 90's. From what I read people using other distributions have see > international > input broken on they own system sometimes. > > I still have a bit of hope though since everything I need to do works fine > with > Firefox and Thunderbird. With both Firefox and Thunderbird I can use Compose > to > enter European characters and SCIM to enter Chinese. So there must be some > way > to make it run also on Xterm and Emacs. > > Some days ago I used suggestions from a formum and assigned Super_L to RALT > using xkbcomp. That worked the first time I did it but it no longer works??? > > My latest attempt was to add "clear mod4" in .Xmodmap. That worked once but > no > longer works??? > > I have tried Sakura but that one has problems with my Chinese fonts so using > Sakura as a terminal is not an answer. > > I am not a develper as such but I write programs for my research. So there > are > a lot of things I understand just very approximately on the > Linux/X11/xterm/Emacs interconnections and that mapping between keycodes and > the > other codings used in X11, xterm and Emacs is something I can't understand I > guess. > > Thanks for your attention and any suggestion that would make me like Linux > again. > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
