Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alexandros Diamantidis wrote:
> [sorry for taking a few days to reply...]
>
> * Jan Willem Stumpel [2006-01-18 14:41]:
>
> > This does not work in my case. Also interchanging the entries (US first,
> > then GR) did not work. I mean you can get the accents, but not the
> > breathing signs. Strangely enough, even calling
> >
> > LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 xterm
> >
> > and then doing things in the new xterm, did not work! I don't understand
> > why. I have the el_GR.UTF-8 locale installed.
>
>
> I really wonder why... I thought if you had a ~/.XCompose file, your
> locale didn't matter (except if you specifically used it in that file,
> by doing 'include "%L"'). Maybe it's not used at all?

I think it did not work because I am trying out scim and uim. I must
have been running scim at the time. It seems that when scim is running,
only its own internal version of the compose file is used. 
Customisations in ῀/.XCompose do not work at all. With uim, they work. 
The Greek entry must of course come second in the ῀/.XCompose file. I do 
not know how uim does it.

This also means that when you run scim, the ogonek and horn do not work 
as breathing signs even if the locale is el_GR.UTF-8, because scim's 
internal copy of the Compose file is only the "common" one.

Regards, Jan



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