Re: umlaut keys don't work in emacs but do in other x apps

["josh" <jbuhl_nospam@gmx.de>]

Hi Peter,

thanks for your reply.

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> I don't think that this is the right thing. AFAIR GNU Emacs wants to
> see environment variables LANG or LC_CTYPE ...

I'm confused here because the locale output I posted showed that these
variables are set:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"

or what do you mean?


> Have you checked whether the X server and GNU Emacs use the same X
> libraries?

you mean like with ldd? I can do this (see below) and their share some
libraries, but I don't know how this helps. Can you clue me in?

-j


josh@om:~$ ldd /usr/bin/Xorg | sort
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d9a000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f93000)
        libfontenc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontenc.so.1 (0xb7f16000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7d30000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ecc000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fab000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7ed7000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7f1c000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7f11000)
        libXfont.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (0xb7f1f000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7efc000)
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)

josh@om:~$ ldd /usr/bin/emacs | sort
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7b5d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7b50000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7e8f000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7e12000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f83000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7db6000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7c8f000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7def000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7ea7000)
        libtiff.so.4 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0xb7e30000)
        libungif.so.4 => /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 (0xb7dad000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7cd1000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7b59000)
        libXaw3d.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 (0xb7f16000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7b54000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7e80000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xb7f00000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7d97000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7eb0000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ddb000)
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)