Bug 101340

Summary: can type double quotes in certain apps when using gnome keyboard
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <onzin>
Component: XFree86Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2003-07-30 23:29:25 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl-NL; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
Hello,

I'm using RedHat 9 in the Dutch language. I also use the Gnome Keyboard
Switcher, to switch between keyboard definitions. You know, the "international"
(deadkey) and the USA variant. When it is in deadkey mode I should be able to
type double quotes by first hitting the quote key and then the spacebar.

But: in Mozilla (webforms like the one where I am typing this bug) *and* in
OpenOffice this creates not a double quote character, but just a space with
umlaut/tréma/diaeresis, like this:

¨ instead of "

So when writing long texts (where I prefer to use the deadkey mode) I have to
switch between the two keyboard language settings all the time, when I need
double quotes somewhere. In the American mode, I can type a quote character by
just hitting the corresponding key, but there I can not (easily) type characters
like éïô and the like... I need them because I write in four different languages
sometimes.

This switching all the time is very annoying. It distracts me from creating text.

Evolution had the same problem, until I upgraded that application through the
Ximian Red Carpet service. It's now 1.4.0 and I'm having no more problems with
it. There is no problem in Gedit either, so I can't say for sure which
applications are to blame and which not. I can test other programs, if so asked.

I saw reference to a very comparable bug 64573. It is closed because it had to
do with RedHat 7.3, not 9. It also speaks about KDE, which I don't use. But
apart from that, it looks much the same.

If needed I can of course provide files etc. as attachments - I just don't know
at this point which ones to send.

Forgive me, I' m just a user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see description

Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-07-30 23:32:30 UTC 
hmm, so mozilla and openoffice are broken, but gtk 2 applications seem to work.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2003-07-30 23:53:01 UTC 
I can now confirm that the same problem exists in The Gimp, Dia and Xchat. So
it's not just Mozilla and OpenOffice.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2003-07-31 14:08:28 UTC 
I can't reproduce the problem; dead_diaresis+space works fine for
me in xterm and other apps that use the standard Xlib compose
tables.

you might want to check with 'xev' whether the key is producing
the dead_diaresis key symbol. If it is, then it's going to be
a XFree86 problem; if not, then it would be a problem with
the gkb keyboard maps. 

(The thing is a menace, it should be deleted from the distribution; 
you may want to install  http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/, which is 
vastly better implmentation-wise.)
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2003-07-31 15:45:29 UTC 
Hello Owen, you said that dead_diaresis+space works fine for you - meaning that
it produces the desired double quote character?

I have tried xev and this happens when I have my keyboard in deadkey mode, when
I hit shift and the double quote on the keyboard:

KeyPress event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21371267, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x10, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""
 
KeyPress event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21375230, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes:  "¨"
 
KeyRelease event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21375420, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes:  "¨"
 
KeyRelease event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21376452, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

And in USA mode:

KeyPress event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21641784, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x10, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""
 
KeyPress event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21642624, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0x22, quotedbl), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes:  """
 
KeyRelease event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21642785, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0x22, quotedbl), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes:  """
 
KeyRelease event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21644038, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

You say it is now an XFree86 problem? It does not really matter to me, because
like I said, I'm mostly a non-technical user - who just wants this thing fixed
whatever the underlying trouble should be :)

Isn't there anything that I can do about it, myself? Edit a little file or
something?
Comment 5 Need Real Name 2003-07-31 15:47:47 UTC 
Hello Owen, you said that dead_diaresis+space works fine for you - meaning that
it produces the desired double quote character?

I have tried xev and this happens when I have my keyboard in deadkey mode, when
I hit shift and the double quote on the keyboard:

KeyPress event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21371267, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x10, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""
 
KeyPress event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21375230, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes:  "¨"
 
KeyRelease event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21375420, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes:  "¨"
 
KeyRelease event, serial 273, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21376452, (-28,256), root:(845,827),
    state 0x11, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

And in USA mode:

KeyPress event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21641784, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x10, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""
 
KeyPress event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21642624, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0x22, quotedbl), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes:  """
 
KeyRelease event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21642785, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 48 (keysym 0x22, quotedbl), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes:  """
 
KeyRelease event, serial 126, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 21644038, (78,-11), root:(93,141),
    state 0x11, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:  ""

You say it is now an XFree86 problem? It does not really matter to me, because
like I said, I'm mostly a non-technical user - who just wants this thing fixed
whatever the underlying trouble should be :)

Isn't there anything that I can do about it, myself? Edit a little file or
something?
Comment 6 Owen Taylor 2003-07-31 16:41:16 UTC 
Actually, I was wrong about it working for me - it was hard to tell
the difference between " and ¨ in ther font I was using in an
xterm.

If you want to work around the problem on your system you can change,
in:

 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

<dead_diaeresis> <space>		: "¨"	diaeresis

to:

<dead_diaeresis> <space>                : "\""  quotedbl

I'm reassigning the bug to the XFree86 component; this has been fixed in 
upstream XFree86 (Mike - see change to cvs/xc/nls/Compose on 2003/04/03), so
we can probably just pull that change into our package.
Comment 7 Need Real Name 2003-07-31 17:20:00 UTC 
Great, thanks for the hint of editing the "Compose" file.

"""""""""" :)

(and sorry for the double post of comments above, I was just browsing back and
forth with Mozilla in the bug system, and somehow submitted the thing twice)
Comment 8 Mike A. Harris 2003-08-01 10:06:04 UTC 
FWIW, this issue is reported many times in bugzilla already, both ours and
upstream's.  I believe the patch is in rawhide already, if not it's in my
patch queue which I'll be processing when I return from vacation.

If someone tests latest rawhide and reports back here, please close bug if
it works right in rawhide.

Thanks.
Comment 9 Mike A. Harris 2004-10-01 06:05:28 UTC 
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue.  Users
who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:

If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest
version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org
bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg"
component.

Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new
bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the
centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that
become available for consideration in future updates.