Description of Problem: Linux compose table (which is also used for dead keys) defines result of the compose operations as 'unsigned char', so dead keys/compose cannot be used in UTF-8 locales. There is a patch at http://people.debian.org/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO/download/unicode_dead_keys_linux-2.4.9.patch.gz but it changes meaning of an existing ioctl. I'll try to do something about this, reported here just so that it can be tracked if it is considered important for RHL 8.1/XP. (Although the fact that people have complained about similar problems in gnome-terminal, but noone in the console, seems to indicate something...) Checked in kernels 2.4.18-14 (RH) and 2.5.39.
*** Bug 81278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 104378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm sending the following patches for consideration to be included upstream (=> don't include them in FC yet), I'll be grateful for any comments.
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AFAIK this is still an issue with 2.6 kernels.
Sorry, I haven't noticed the more complete bug report... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143014 ***