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[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>]

Hi,

This is sort of embarrassing, since I should have noticed weeks ago, :-)

I'm using terminus font for console and set us_en.utf as locale, see:

/etc/sysconfig/keymap
KEYMAP=la-latin1
INCLUDEMAPS=
SETFONT_ARGS="ter-v24n"
TTY_NUMS=*
UNICODE_START=true

/etc/sysconfig/locale
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
...
LC_MEASUREMENT=

That allows me to type correctly "í", notice the accent, :-)

For X I have the setting:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbLayout" "latam,us"
        Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch, grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

~/.Xresources
...
URxvt.font:             -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
...
Aterm.font:             -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
...
XTerm*font:             -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

~/.xinitrc
...
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
unset userresources

But on urxvt or xterm when I type "í" which is typing the accent
followed by the character to be accented, what I get is "´i", meaning
the accent first and the character later (in the order typed).

I don't use any DE, plain fluxbox, and for some reason gtk+
applications don't suffer this misbehavior.  Just the X terminals such
as xterm, aterm, urxvt (rxvt-unicode).

It's not the dead keys, cause the work OK, ~, ^, etc, work OK...

Some relevant output on urxvt:

% locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

% env | grep 'LC_|LANG'
LANG=en_US.utf8

% ps auxww | grep urxvt
<username> 32658  0.0  0.3 119712 14112 ?        Ss   17:41   0:01 urxvt

% xargs -0 -n1 < /proc/32658/environ | grep 'LC_|LANG'
LANG=en_US.utf8

It seems everything is OK, and I should get the accented chars in the
X terminals, but I don't.

Worse of all, it does work on console, :-).  And my settings have
always worked on other binary distros such as debian or arch...  So
I'm wondering if there's anything special to be set on SM for this to
work...

Thanks,


--
Javier.