On 2003-09-17 12:18:12 +0100 (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-01/msg00041.html which doesn't solve the question but does indicate that there are built-in problems (it looks as though that whole mailing list is worth a browse,
Thanks Ted! I always thought that list was only concerned with the console, but there are some xfree86 messages in it. It seems that the locale was incorrect at the time xdm was started (when I used version 3.3.1, I used startx) and so X didn't recognise all the input I was trying to use. I also needed to add the "compose:rwin" XKB option to get the compose key on the right windows key, so I can get characters like c-cedilla by pressing compose , c in order.
I can now type ç, ĉ, ŭ and other things that won't show correctly on most of your screens, but I still don't understand why my xmodmap doesn't work. Which modifier is used for the 3rd and 4th columns? Mod3? Mod5?