bug#793: 23.0.60; dead keys not correctly in use

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

GNU Emacs does not handle the dead keys on my keyboard correctly. In  
its appearance as Emacs the are correctly handled:

        ^ <ns-insert-working-text> <ns-delete-working-text>
        ^ <ns-insert-working-text> <ns-delete-working-text>
        ´ <ns-insert-working-text> <ns-delete-working-text>
        ` <ns-insert-working-text> <ns-delete-working-text>
        ¨ <ns-insert-working-text> <ns-delete-working-text>
        ~ C-h l

The X client about all of them: "<xxx> is undefined."

When I insert

        (load-library "iso-transl")

into *scratch* buffer and type C-j, I get:

        ^^'`"~

and in *Help* buffer:

	<dead-circumflex> SPC <S-dead-circumflex> SPC <dead-acute> SPC <S- 
dead-grave> SPC <dead-diaeresis> SPC <dead-tilde> SPC C-h l

Obviously <S-dead-grave> is misunderstood – it should be <S-dead- 
acute> – and inserted as in xterm or uxterm as

                character: ' (39, #o47, #x27)
        preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
               code point: 0x27
                   syntax: '    which means: prefix
	         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983 
[4/0]) l:Latin
                           r:Japanese roman
              buffer code: #x27
                file code: #x27 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)

while it should be

                character: ´ (180, #o264, #xb4)
        preferred charset: iso-8859-1 (Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1))
               code point: 0xB4
                   syntax: _    which means: symbol
                 category: h:Korean j:Japanese l:Latin
              buffer code: #xC2 #xB4
                file code: #xC2 #xB4 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)

as in Emacs.app or Carbon Emacs (22.2). In xterm and uxterm the dead  
keys compose accented characters. The same characters are also  
composed in the X client after iso-transl was loaded.

Xev records:

KeyPress event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119183239, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 18 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex),  
same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119183464, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 18 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex),  
same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119188999, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119189331, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119189947, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x9, keycode 30 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex),  
same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 18
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119189947, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x9, keycode 0 (keysym 0x5e, asciicircum), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (00) ""
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119190005, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x9, keycode 30 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex),  
same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 18
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119191635, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x9, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119191743, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119192575, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 32 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 b4) "´"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119192641, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 32 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 b4) "´"

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119193803, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119194349, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x1, keycode 32 (keysym 0xfe50, dead_grave), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119194418, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x1, keycode 32 (keysym 0xfe50, dead_grave), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119195502, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x1, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119195999, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119196285, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 40 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis),  
same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a8) "¨"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119196345, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 40 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis),  
same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a8) "¨"

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119196732, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119198391, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119198694, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 53 (keysym 0xfe53, dead_tilde), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7e) "~"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119198743, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 53 (keysym 0xfe53, dead_tilde), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7e) "~"

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 119199006, (69,-8), root:(103,46),
    state 0x8, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen  
YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:




In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
 of 2008-08-26 on localhost
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ 
Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site- 
lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
qt4-x11/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/system-openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-Wno-pointer-sign -bind_at_load  
-H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree- 
vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks- 
and-partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=- 
no-cpp-precomp' 'LDFLAGS=-bind_at_load -dead_strip -multiply_defined  
suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<dead-circumflex> <S-dead-circumflex> <dead-acute>
<S-dead-grave> <dead-diaeresis> <dead-tilde> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>


--
Greetings

  Pete

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