We had the same problem in this thread:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156352002210168&w=2

It is working fine for me now, so I can't reproduce it.

/NilsOla


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 06:03:53AM +0000, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote:
> Dear Ingo,
> 
> Danke!
> 
> On 2/19/20, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:
> > Just to make sure it worked, could you please show the output of:
> >
> >    $ setxkbmap -query
> 
> The output is:
> 
> rules:      base
> model:      pc105
> layout:     us
> variant:    dvp
> options:    compose:ralt
> 
> > What exactly do you mean by "not able to use"?
> > If, while xterm is in focus, you press and relese the compose key,
> > then press and release the first key, then press and release the
> > second key, then press and release some latin letter key, what
> > exactly happens after each step?
> 
> To type for example ø, I press and release the compose key, then press
> and release the / key, and then press and release the o key. I get
> /o
> on xterm, but ø on firefox.
> 
> > Guessing blindly, the problem might be that while firefox finds a font
> > to display the character, xterm does not.  Or that you have changed
> > your xterm configuration in some way that disables UTF-8 (it is on
> > by default).  Can you please retry in xterm with a different character
> > that can be displayed in xterm out of the box, say U+00E5 LATIN
> > SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE?  What happens if you type and release
> > ralt, then a, then a, then x?
> 
> xterm can display å too, when I copies it using shift+insert from
> firefox or other places.
> 
> xterm can display ø when I copies it using shift+insert from firefox
> or other places.
> 
> > If none of the above lets you solve your problem yet, what does the
> > following command say:
> >
> >   $ xterm -report-xres
> >
> > In an xterm started that way, does the compose key work?
> > Both with the character you want and with U+00E5 A RING?
> 
> Ugh. xterm says:
> 
> xterm: bad command line option "-report-xres"
> 
> I forgot to report maybe an important piece of information. I use scim
> to type in Chinese. I use the default xdm. Here is my .xsession:
> 
> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
> export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
> export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
> scim -d
> 
> setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvp -option compose:ralt
> 
> exec dbus-launch /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm
> 
> I was going to ask my questions one by one so that I will not flood
> the email list with all my questions. But the scim question is the
> following.
> 
> Quite the opposite of my compose key problem, I am not able to
> activate scim (by ctrl + space) on normal GUI programs (firefox,
> libreoffice, xpdf, keepassxc, emacs-gtk etc).
> 
> But but but, I am able to activate scim on xterm and type Chinese there.
> 
> So I have actually been typing æ, ø, å in firefox and copy back to
> xterm and typing Chinese using scim on xterm and copy back to firefox
> / libreoffice for like more than half a year.... I had this problem on
> OpenBSD 6.5 too (I was using OpenBSD like 10 years ago for some time
> and also in between in the past ten years. I went back, last year, to
> OpenBSD... Was using NetBSD even longer time ago and started using
> unix-like system around 2001 or 2002)..... But I did not have this
> type of scim / compose key problems on Debian, NixOS, Arch Linux, or
> Void Linux, which are the Linux distributions that I used in the
> recent years.
> 
> Good morning, by the way!
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Xianwen

-- 
Nils Ola Nilsson, 🐞 email nils...@abc.se, tel +46-70-374 69 89

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