bug#11234: 23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing (wheezy).

[boris <boris@iis.sinica.edu.tw>]

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After running emacs under Debian mentioned above, fully updated,
general compose key shortcuts do not work. The only compose key
shorcuts that work in emacs under the described conditions are
those, that are defined in ~/.XCompose file (I defined three shortcuts
there, ☺, →, ← to test what I say, and they work. The shortcuts defined
in /usr/share/X11/locale/... do not work. Compose key works OK in other
X programs, such as Libre Office, Iceweasel, terminator. Eg. xterm seems
to have similar problem as emacs, but that might be due to its inept
font. I posted it on stackoverflow, and was told to send a bug report.

yours truly, boris

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In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-03-21 on murphy, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11104000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -Wall -DDEBIAN -O2' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  pair-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  auto-complete-mode: t
  yas/global-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
g <backspace> <backspace> ' <backspace> : g <return> 
e n d <return> <return> c l a s s SPC S u b s t a n 
c e A m o u n t SPC < SPC U n i t <down> <down> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <delete> 
<end> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
S u b s t a n c e <tab> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <delete> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<return> <return> c l a s s SPC p u n <backspace> <backspace> 
o u n d SPC < SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
P o u n d SPC < SPC M a s s <return> <tab> @ u n i 
t _ s <tab> SPC = SPC : p n <backspace> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
<return> <return> <up> <tab> a t t r _ r e <tab> SPC 
: u n i t _ s <tab> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
<C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
<C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
<up> <end> <return> <tab> @ u n i t _ s y m b o l SPC 
= SPC : M C-x C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> 
<M-f11> <switch-frame> X b C-_ C-x b * s c r <tab> 
<return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> M-x <escape> C-g <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-1> <return> <return> r e q k o <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> ☺ - - → - < <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> s-\ C-\ - C-\ - ☺ → ← 
- . C-\ M-x <escape> ☺ ☺ → ← c c <escape> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> o ☺ s-x M-x r e p o r e <backspace> t - e 
m a c - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Keyboard macro defined
Undo!
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Saving file /home/boris/5oro/ced/ruby/temp.rb...
Wrote /home/boris/5oro/ced/ruby/temp.rb
Undo!
call-interactively: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer

Load-path shadows:
/home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-electric-1.1/ruby-electric hides /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/ruby-electric
/home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-mode-1.1/ruby-mode hides /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/ruby-mode
/home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/inf-ruby-2.1/inf-ruby hides /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/inf-ruby
/home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-0.8.1/magit hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp/magit/magit
/usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/home/boris/.emacs.d/custom/desktop hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/desktop
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-mode-1.1/ruby-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
hashcash mail-utils emacsbug ja-dic japan-util kkc ja-dic-utl two-column
iso-transl novice quail mule-diag mule-util cus-edit cus-start cus-load
pp wid-edit descr-text newcomment thingatpt find-func help-mode view
apropos dired multi-isearch vc-git rinari jump inflections findr
ruby-compilation which-func imenu pcomplete paren ansi-color shell
bibtex-utils maxframe pair-mode skeleton auto-complete-config
auto-complete popup company-autoloads hungry-delete-autoloads
magit-autoloads paredit-autoloads rinari-autoloads jump-autoloads
inflections-autoloads findr-autoloads ruby-compilation-autoloads
inf-ruby-autoloads ruby-electric-autoloads ruby-mode-autoloads
ruby-test-mode-autoloads slime-repl-autoloads slime-autoloads
smart-operator-autoloads texdrive-autoloads wtf-autoloads yari-autoloads
zenburn-autoloads package reporter inf-ruby ruby-mode regexp-opt compile
comint ring advice advice-preload yasnippet help-fns derived easy-mmode
edmacro kmacro easymenu assoc cl cl-19 tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset
image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files
text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)


-- 
boris <boris@iis.sinica.edu.tw>