Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219847
Updating to FC6 breaks compatibility with Tk
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:51 EST
Description of problem: Under Fedora Core 6 I cannot type accented characters anymore in Tk, since the dead key used to generate the accent now only prints out the corresponding accent - so, if one wants to write "naïve" or "résumé" in a Tk text widget, they come out as "na¨ive" or "r´esum´e" respectively. This, of course, affects all apps using Tk, including (but not limited to) Maxima, aMSN and UUDeview. I have tried this with the Tk 8.4.13 binaries which were working fine under FC5 (and were installed and reinstalled via yum), with version 8.5a4 which I compiled from sources, and with version 8.5a5 which I compiled from exactly the same sources both under FC6 and under Ubuntu liveCD - and which works fine under Ubuntu liveCD. The problem is always present. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.4.13-3.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Tk. 2. Create a Tk text widget (for example via "pack [text .t]"). 3. Try to input an accented character (say, é) using a dead key. Actual results: The intended accented character (in this example, é) is inputted and displayed on the widget. Expected results: The input comes out as two separate characters: accent + unaccented character (in this example, ´e). Additional info:
I try it on the same version and it§s _resumé_. Why do you want to split one character into two characters?
My mistake. Swap actual and expected results.
I thought so, but I don't have this problem. Do you have fonts, xorg and locales properly configured? Maybe you're missing some fonts? I have: tcl-8.4.13-3.fc6 tk-8.4.13-3.fc6 and *-fonts-ISO8859-2-*
Same here. It even worked fine under FC5.
I tried it on different distro FC-5, FC-6 even RHEL and works for me. Sorry can't help you. If you have more information please reopen it.