Bug 51485

Summary: Entry and Text widgets do not recognise deadkeys defined in .Xmodmap
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Niall S Cearbhaill <niallsoc>
Component: tcltkAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: teg
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This is a copy of my ".Xmodmap" file none

Description Niall S Cearbhaill 2001-08-10 21:04:23 UTC
Description of Problem:
When deadkeys are defined in .Xmodmap such as "apostrophe => dead_acute"
both the entry and text widget refuse to recognise it. Under RH6.2 the
result on pressing apostrophe followed by the letter a would be "a"
(aacute). However
under both RH7.0 and RH7.1 the rsult is oxb4 (the acute accent) followed
by a

Note: the problem is with the widgets. If wish is run on its own in a shell
the wish correctly interprets the keystrokes -- in the terminal!

How Reproducible:
I4m sending you my Xmodmap file. Load it in your account as ".Xmodmap"
logout from X, and log back in to X to activate it. In a terminal
or in gedit, verify that pressing apostrophe followed by a say, generates
the character a (aacute). Try it with a Tcl/Tk program with an entry widget
and see what happens

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up supplied ".Xmodmap", logout and login again
2. check that apostrophe works as dead_acute (in a terminal
3. try it in a Tcl/Tk program with either an entry widget or a text widget

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Looking at the sources, I believe the error is in the routines  (commom
to both "entry" and "text" which map the ".Xmodmap" file to a table.

Comment 1 Niall S Cearbhaill 2001-08-10 21:06:51 UTC
Created attachment 27333 [details]
This is a copy of my ".Xmodmap" file

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-08-13 15:42:33 UTC
Have you tried the beta? It seems to be working for me with tcl-8.3.3-64


Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-08-21 18:30:51 UTC
Closing due to lack of feedback.