Hi,
I am having a quite strange problem with typing accents (French). I use a Canadian multilingual keyboard (the input method is like dead keys: you press the accent, then the character).
I can type accents in:
gedit, kedit, xemacs, firefox, etc.
This is where it gets strange: I can only type accents in terminals (xterm, Eterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, yakuake, ssh from a Windows machine with Putty) when I am root or another user, but not with my regular user account. The accents can still be displayed fine, even with my account (I just can't type them). When I type an accented character, nothing happens. If I su to another account, accents start to work. I used xev to look at what was going on and it wasn't of much use (output was the same for every user account). All I could find the gnome-terminal output for when I type an accented character: "invalid or incomplete multibyte character" (this was sent into gnome-terminal's parent window [konsole]). What's interesting is that in gnome-terminal, the errors occur even after I su to another account (but not if I start gnome-terminal as another user).
It gets worse: in OO.o and kword, I can only type the é accent (which happens to be the only accented character you can get in a single keystroke). This is the same for all accounts. This is my biggest problem (I only need accents for word processing), but I guess it's the hardest to solve (I've found many people experiencing issues with accents in OO.o).

I'm attaching to this thread as (i.e., in gedit, firefox) accents don't work for me, at all.

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