This report can be closed, as the cause is the lack of some compose combinations in the keymap. The usual method of showing dead keys (for diacritical marks) is to use space after it. The keymaps use a repetition of the same dead key. That is bad habit. Does not work on a typewriter. It would make things clearer, if the compose table in the file "drivers/char/defkeymap.map" would be augmented by the three lines, that are shown at the end of this message.
The kernel transforms 8 bit diacritics to 7 bit representations (code is valid for ISO-8859-1): dead_diaeresis (0xA8) to " (quotation mark, 0x22) dead_acute (0xB4) to ' (apostrophe, 0x27) dead_cedilla (0xB8) to , (comma, 0x2C). Define these compose keys to show the 8 bit version in the usual way by using a space character after the dead key. compose '"' ' ' '¨' compose '\'' ' ' '´' compose ',' ' ' '¸' -- Bjarni I. Gislason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org