diacritics in xterm

[oldo <oldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

i want to use xterm in utf8 mode in locale de_DE.UTF-8. My system is
Debian stable (2.2r4), with xfree 3.3.6 (my graphic card is not supported
by xfree4). I have done this before on a suse 6.4 sytem (with the same
problem).

The problem is: I cannot enter any "combining characters" (like ~,^,´,´).
Even if i enter a space afterwards nothing appears in xterm. I can enter
"äöüß" and in the "normal" latin1 xterm there is no problem with ~ and
so on. Keyboard layout is set to qwertz/German *with* deadkeys,
i.e. in /etc/X11/XF86config:

Section "Keyboard"
   Protocol        "Standard"
   XkbRules        "xfree86"
   XkbModel        "pc102"
   XkbLayout       "de"
EndSection

I downloaded xterm-164. When i configured it using --enable-wide-chars I
got the lines (somewhere in the configure output):

checking for Xutf8LookupString... no
checking if you want support for input-method... yes
checking if X libraries support input-method... yes
checking if you want support for internationalization... yes
checking if you want wide-character support... yes

So i miss Xutf8LookupString...

I set locale with "export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" and started up the xterm.
The X resources for xterm are set to:

xterm*font:             *-medium-*--15-*-iso10646-1
xterm*boldFont:         *-bold-*--15-*-iso10646-1
xterm*font1:            *-medium-*--10-*-iso10646-1
xterm*font2:            *-medium-*--15-*-iso10646-1
xterm*font3:            *-medium-*--18-*-iso10646-1
xterm*font4:            *-medium-*--20-*-iso10646-1

All works well apart from the problem with the "combining characters".
Can anyone give some help?!

thank you
Oliver


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