Brazilian ABNT2 deadkeys not working for legacy X apps

nitrousoxide82 · 03-30-2007, 11:40 PM

I can't get ABNT2 deadkeys (ã,õ,ê etc.) to work with legacy X programs (such as AMSN). They work fine in the terminal and in Qt/GTK programs. I have SCIM configured for Japanese input on my system, but that should be irrelevant as I had it before and it worked before upgrading to Feisty. The relevant XKB options are set like this:

Code:

Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
Option "XkbLayout" "br"
Option "XkbVariant" "abnt2"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"

The "xfree86" rule set is needed to get the 3rd level (Alt Gr) to work.

[Update] This time, SCIM is to blame... disabling it corrected the keyboard behavior. I'll look further into it, but if you guys have any ideas please, by all means, post away!

nitrousoxide82 · 03-31-2007, 09:38 AM

I'm one step closer to solving it. Now the deadkeys are recognized, I had to add my locale (pt_BR.UTF-8) to the SCIM configuration file. However, I seem to get strange characters instead of those I'm supposed to get when I type on pure X programs. I think it might be because LC_CTYPE is set to "ja_JP.UTF-8" (needed to get Japanese input in applications like OpenOffice.org). I'll look further, and post again. Once again, if you guys have any ideas, post away!

nitrousoxide82 · 04-01-2007, 12:37 AM

It was an environment variable mess. Since I'm only going to use LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 on OpenOffice.org, I've added

Code:

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE

to /etc/openoffice/soffice.sh and left my main LC_CTYPE set to pt_BR.UTF-8. Now everything works, but switching between pure X app windows became a little slower because of SCIM. This became necessary too because Wine doesn't handle this kind of setup very well.