Re: xterm choking on compose key input

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2015-01-07 09:38 +0100, Kumar Appaiah wrote:

> I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I
> use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I
> copied the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file to
> ~/.XCompose.
>
> Now, most applications work fine. However, xterm seems to choke on
> compose key input, and I get garbage whenever I type any compose key
> sequence. However, if I run LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xterm, then it works
> fine.

Which version of xterm is that?  If ~/.XCompose exists, xterm does not
read any other Compose files here:

,----
| $ strace xterm -e true 2>&1 | grep Compose                 
| open("/home/sven/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 5
| stat64("/home/sven/.XCompose", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
| stat64("/home/sven/.XCompose", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
| open("/home/sven/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 5
`----

So I don't have any explanation for the behavior you observe.

Cheers,
       Sven