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#1 2007-09-26 18:31:29

dezza
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2007-04-05
Posts: 126

xterm "æøå" (danish/scandinavian letters) acts like deadkeys!

Untill now I have only discovered this problem in xterm! aterm won't even let me write æøå neither rxvt or rxvt unicode! Firefox I can write æøå just fine, and also in the tty outside Xorg. I'm not really sure where this problem belongs?

Well, my favorite terminal "aterm" won't even let me type "æøå" (Solutions welcome), xterm will, but it kinda acts like dead keys..

Let me explain.

If i press "æ" one single time xterm looks like this:

[dezza@dezza ~]$

You see, empty..

If i type it twice "ææ":

[dezza@dezza ~]$ æ

the same with ø and å, and also if combining them, for example "æøåæøåæøå" gives:

[dezza@dezza ~]$ æøåæøåæø (Missing å at last)

You see? It's kinda like using SHIFT+^ button, you need to type a letter or number after to see the text.

..

Last edited by dezza (2007-09-26 21:59:15)

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#2 2007-09-26 19:19:22

Gilneas
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From: Netherlands
Registered: 2006-10-22
Posts: 320

Re: xterm "æøå" (danish/scandinavian letters) acts like deadkeys!

Have you tried screen's digraph system?

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#3 2007-09-26 20:00:01

ndlarsen
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2005-11-02
Posts: 157

Re: xterm "æøå" (danish/scandinavian letters) acts like deadkeys!

Try commenting the deadkeys part of your xorg.conf.

#    Option "XkbVariant"        "nodeadkeys"

Seems to work for me.


I made it long
as I lacked the time to make it short...

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#4 2007-09-26 21:53:12

dezza
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2007-04-05
Posts: 126

Re: xterm "æøå" (danish/scandinavian letters) acts like deadkeys!

I don't have that part, so no worries, and this ONLY happens in xterm, not Firefox or any other programs I've discovered yet (Just reinstalled) ..

Gilneas wrote:

Have you tried screen's digraph system?

What is that?

Last edited by dezza (2007-09-26 22:04:34)

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#5 2007-10-04 14:53:15

dezza
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2007-04-05
Posts: 126

Re: xterm "æøå" (danish/scandinavian letters) acts like deadkeys!

Running xterm with: "xterm -lc" solves it.

Last edited by dezza (2007-10-04 17:28:50)

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