If you enable 'flyspell-mode' in a buffer, and switch to `english-dvorak' input method, you'll notice keys are not outputting expected characters. As soon as you disable 'flyspell-mode' it starts working as expected. I'm running Emacs bzr HEAD r113965. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2013-08-21 on chateau.d.if Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000 Configured using: `configure --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=athena --with-xft --with-m17n-flt --with-libotf --with-imagemagick --with-gsettings --with-gconf --with-xim --with-sound --with-dbus --with-xml2 --with-gnutls --with-acl --with-file-notification=gfile --x-libraries=/usr/local/lib --x-includes=/usr/local/include --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/emacs/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1 CFLAGS='-fstack-protector -march=nocona -g' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' LDFLAGS=' -L/usr/local/lib'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: gnus-topic-mode: t gnus-undo-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t global-auto-complete-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t display-time-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: 3 0 q g q 2 g q g q C-u a C-\ J g ; SPC ; j M-x f l y s p m o K J J g ; SPC k j g ; SPC ; g k l f m n o d d o SPC J J g SPC G q m SPC A ; j g ; j SPC : J F V P A S-SPC g k j k j g ; SPC g ; SPC m t SPC l a m d e C-z c M-x f l y s m o C-\ J g ; ; ; SPC k j g ; SPC C-\ C-z 0 C-c C-k y e s M-x r e p r o r b u Recent messages: Can't find directory separator in global.SCORE No more unseen articles Mark set Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules Mark set [9 times] Making completion list... Flyspell mode disabled Mark set Flyspell mode enabled Making completion list... Load-path shadows: /home/abbe/.emacs.d/elisp/apel/env hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/env /home/abbe/.emacs.d/elisp/apel/timezone hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/timezone /home/abbe/.emacs.d/elisp/full-ack/.dir-locals hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals Features: (shadow thingatpt emacsbug mm-archive pp mailalias smtpmail sendmail gnus-fun bbdb-gui sort smiley gnus-bcklg qp quail help-mode flyspell ispell gnus-cite hashcash footnote nnir gnus-async gnus-ml disp-table gnus-topic utf-7 nndraft nnmh nnmaildir epa-file epa epg network-stream starttls nnimap parse-time utf7 netrc bbdb-gnus bbdb-snarf mail-extr nnnil gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score score-mode nnvirtual nntp gnus-cache spam spam-stat bbdb-com warnings bbdb gnus-uu yenc gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 epg-config mm-view mml-smime smime dig mm-url nnmairix nnml gnus-sum gnus-group gnus-undo nnmail mail-source nnoo supercite regi w3m browse-url doc-view jka-compr dired image-mode w3m-hist w3m-fb bookmark-w3m w3m-ems w3m-ccl ccl w3m-favicon w3m-image w3m-proc w3m-util gnus-start gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range message idna rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win gnus gnus-ems nnheader mail-utils server wombat-theme tramp tramp-compat tramp-loaddefs trampver shell geiser blog metaweblog xml-rpc timezone url-http tls url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history mailcap url-auth mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums url-cookie url-domsuf url-util url-parse auth-source eieio eieio-core gnus-util mm-util mail-prsvr password-cache url-gw url-vars xml muse-html muse-xml-common cus-edit cus-start cus-load muse-publish muse-project muse-protocols info muse-regexps wid-edit derived muse muse-nested-tags muse-mode org-agenda org byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table org-footnote org-src ob-comint ob-keys org-pcomplete pcomplete comint ansi-color ring org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob org-compat org-macs ob-eval org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs auto-complete-config auto-complete easy-mmode popup slime-autoloads clojure-mode edmacro kmacro scim-bridge mule-util advice help-fns alist pym static apel-ver product elscreen bbdb-autoloads w3m-load erlang-start boxquote cl-macs gv rect cl cl-loaddefs cl-lib delsel time paren uniquify go-mode-load time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar 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 minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Let me know if you need more information. Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA “Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break.” (David Kahn, "The Codebreakers", 1967) Sent from my Emacs