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Re: Mozilla dead keys



On  0, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra@terra.com.br> wrote:
> I am using Mozilla & Galeon at Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 PowerPC testing.  I
> have an iBook with US keyboard, and use the US-intl keyboard which gives
> me Western European diacritical accented characters using the tilde,
> quote, apostrophe, circumflex and grave dead keys.  The original
> characters are given by typing the key twice or followed by a space.
> 
> 	I can use dead keys both in console and in X, using Gnome mostly.  But I
> can't use them properly in neither Mozilla nor Gnome.  The URL boxes are
> OK, but neither HTML forms nor email bodies or headers.  I do not get
> neither accented character nor the simple quote, apostrophe, tilde, grave
> or circumflex.
> 
> 	I already revised all my locale and keyboard configurations with help
> from the user-portuguese list, and no one could help me there.  I am
> about to file a bug, but thought it might be expedient to raise the issue
> here.

Maybe the forms use the Content-Encoding: and Content-Language:
headers of the HTML page to determine locale instead of your system
locale?

Tom
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