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Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
> 
> Okay. I finally found another alternative to change the input
> method. I tried *all* solutions, but it always show <dead-circumflex>
> is undefined.
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thanks. 

Does it have any thing to do with scim, whatever that is?:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403281

Try changing your keyboard to French Candadian, or better yet, UK or US. 
  Anyway, it seems not to be an Emacs problem but a keyboard one caused 
by the OS.

Ed

Btw, C-x RET C-\ should work if you have not reassigned key bindings. 
RET is the Enter key.