Problem: miniChinput + locale zh_CN.UTF-8 + Gtk

[Wu Yongwei <adah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Mr Yu Shao, are you there?

I am using your miniChinput-0.0.3-56.i386.rpm.  While it works generally
fine under locales zh_CN.GB18030 and zh_CN.UTF-8, it has a strange
phenomenon with Gtk applications under locale zh_CN.UTF-8.  When I press
Ctrl-. to enable wide punctuation marks, and then press "." (for
example), I will get a Chinese full stop in KDE applications like
konsole and kate (under either a KDE session or GNOME session), but
unexpectedly I will get four characters in a Gtk application like the
GNOME terminal, Open Office, or Mozilla (v1.2 with Xft enabled).  The
first is the one I want, the second is at first a wide "2", but
changeable if I press "^" or "-" --- it will then become a Chinese
ellipsis or dash accordingly --- the third a TAB and fourth a wide "A".
It comes only at the combination of Gtk and locale zh_CN.UTF-8.

Any clues?  It is a little annoying.

I am running Red Hat Linux 8.0, with standard KDE and GNOME installed.
I modified /etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias, adding a line "Chinese(simplified)
zh_CN.GB18030" to log in with locale zh_CN.UTF-8.  I hope you will be
able to reproduce the problem.

Best regards,

Wu Yongwei



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