Posted by Petri Palmu on
URL: https://forum.survo.fi/Survo-R-Linuxissa-tp557p566.html

Jos nyt oikein ymmärsin, niin ongelma voisi liittyä dead keys hommaan.

Täällä puhutaan että ongelma ilmenee Tcl/Tk shellissä.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798426
Viestiketjussa:
Hello,

Since about yesterday, dead keys do not work on most (almost all) programs on my system. That is, if I type e.g. dead_acute + a it comes out as ´a, instead of á. The Compose key is ignored in the same fashion, so e.g. Compose+'+a produces 'a instead of á.
The programs in which this problem appears include Firefox, Epiphany, Gnome Terminal, Gedit, and Tcl/Tk shell - in fact, the only program so far in which I've found the dead keys to work as they should is Mathematica.

With respect to Gnome Terminal, there is a way to make dead keys work - namely, to switch the input method from "System" to "Simple". Unfortunately most apps do not have such an input method switcher, so I still cannot write accented characters on Firefox or aMSN (which is Tcl/Tk-based).
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