bug#19487: 24.3; Compose key does not work

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry don't have a working machine with recent emacs rt  now to try 😐
> (from phone)

Will you have access to a working machine in the foreseeable future?
Otherwise it looks like it will be hard to make any progress here.

Thanks.

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 22:14 Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
>
>> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > After
>> > $ setxkbmap -variant altgr-intl -option compose:menu
>> >
>> > I can enter unicode characters with Menu everywhere except emacs
>> >
>> > Starting emacs with
>> > $ env -u XMODIFIERS emacs
>> >
>> > makes it work
>> > If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
>> > please include the output from the following gdb commands:
>> >     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
>> > For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
>> > /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/DEBUG.
>> >
>> >
>> > In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
>> >  of 2014-06-06 on brownie, modified by Debian
>> > Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version
>> 11.0.11600000
>> > System Description:    Ubuntu 14.10
>>
>> (This was reported 5 years ago but never received a reply at the time.)
>>
>> Are you still seeing this in a recent version of Emacs, such as the
>> recently released version 27.1?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefan Kangas
>>