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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

Perhaps check the output of "setxkbmap -print" to make sure the level
3 key is being set correctly in terminals. Doing something like
http://shtrom.ssji.net/skb/xorg-ligatures.html works for me.



On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 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.
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