Compose key in Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Ubuntu 9.04

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Thanks Ulf, for your reply. I didn't know that I could custoimize the
Compose behaviour.
Well, I don't have much problems with it anyway, because I have my own
keyboard layout so I can type most of the characters I want using the
AltGr key, like … ℃ © φ ℉ ð Ð π ℗ ↵ ¶ ↑→↓← ☠ ☏ and so on. Those
arrows, for example, I aassigned to AltGr+the arrow keys and the ↵ and
¶ are assigned to my Enter key in combination with AltGr and
AltGr+Shift respectively…
Could the fact that I use my own keyboard layout be a part of the
reason why the Compose thing behaves differently? Because I have my
own layout on the Ubuntu 8.10 laptop but I use the standard Swedish
layout on the Ubuntu 9.04 machine.

Johnny Rosenberg

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2009/8/13 Ulf Rompe <ulf.buntu at rompe.org>:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2009, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
>> I have four machines: One with Ubuntu 8.10 and the other three with
>> Ubuntu 9.04. Here are some examples of the Compose key output at the
>> Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Ubuntu 8.10:
>> Combination: 9.04 - 8.10
>> Compose c o: © - ǒ
>> Compose o c: © - ©
>> Compose . .: ˙ - …
>>
>> Well, I guess there are more differences, but these will do.
>> Can anyone give me some suggestions WHY this happens?
>
> I think the change has been made upstream. In fact, the behaviour
> depends on your current locale. Try this:
>
> fgrep "<Multi_key> <c> <o>" /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose
>
> You will see that there are still locales where "Compose c o" maps to
> "ǒ", in detail en_US.UTF-8 and fi_FI.UTF-8. In all other locales it is
> mapped to "©".
>
>> This makes the Compose key somewhat more useless in Ubuntu 9.04 than
>> in Ubuntu 8.10, I think, if this is a Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Ubuntu 9.04
>> issue, that is.
>
> Don't despair, there are still possibilities to enter it:
>
> As unicode:
> Press Ctrl-Shift-u followed by 01d2 and Space.
>
> By creating your own compose mappings:
> Create a file named ~/.XCompose by either copying one of
> the /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose files or by editing it from scratch.
> This way, you can create any mapping you want. You could also copy the
> file from your Ubuntu 8.10 installation if you want it to be 100%
> compatible.
>
>
> [x] ulf
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