Re: (K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore

[Óscar Fuentes]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> Usually I write non ascii text, such as latin1 or hebrew with quail,
> however sometimes I also use the keyboard layout as provided by Kubuntu.
> (That is not very recommenable for hebrew since C-s would give C-ד.
>
> However for latin-1 it is ok, till recently I must say.
>
> Now when I have us/intl activated and press the key:
> It's shift+ the key two keys to the right of L
> then I obtain
>
> <dead-diaeresis> is undefined
>
> So pressing that key and say a does not result in ä
>
> Xev tells me
> KeyPress event, serial 39, synthetic, NO, window 0x5a0001
> state 0x2001, keycode 0 (keysym 0xa8, diarersis), same_screen Yes
> XMBLookupstring gives 2 bytel (c2 a8) "¨"
>
> This is not strictly a GNU emacs question, but if somebody know about it
> I would be grateful.

I'm using the Kubuntu 17.04 distribution, with "US intl with dead keys"
keyboard layout, but with the Awesome window manager instead. With a
freshly compiled emacs, ä etc works fine.

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us_intl
options:    lv3:ralt_switch