Unable to accent

[Antonio Luiz Pacifico <pacifico@ipt.br>]

Hi,

I upgraded my debian testing today. Without any reason I notice the 
keyboard I'm lost the hability to accent the words.
My keyboard is sun type 5.
Until that upgrade I used the "compose" key plus one symbol, for example 
 ' plus a to get a with accent. Now it stops working.
Interestingly emacs and bluefish are working fine, as before, but 
mozilla e-mail client, gnumeric, openoffice and other applications I use 
don't work properly. Why? What could happen?
One of the upgrades I did was xfree 4.2.1-6 to 4.2.1-11. Another was 
gnome 1.4 to 2.2, but this has upgrated for a long period and never 
caused any problem.
I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 many times, however I think 
there isn't any better for my keyboard than the XFConfig-4 extract:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"sun"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"type5"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"

Could someone give a help?
Thanks.

Antonio L. Pacifico