Hello,

I m a french user of Gnome / Ubuntu (last version) and wine. I'm quite a beginner on linux. I'm trying to switch totally to linux, but still want to use some windows software with wine which generally works great.

I have figured out that the dead keys did not work on my french keyboard. For instance, I can't type êâûîôäË, etc. I will get instead ^e^a etc.
Otherwise, the classical accents that are defined on typical french keyboard do work (like éèàç).

I know that there is or there was an issue about dead keys with wine. But I can't find any clear information.

Thanks for your help
Oberon

Make sure your locale is set properly. Specifically the LANG environment variable.

Sorry for being a little silly... but where do I find or change the locale.

Thanks

If by locale you refered to the command


Here is my result :
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

It seems rather classical...

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I keep on answering myself, tough I have not found the solution yet.
I have noticed that dead keys did not work on my identy on Ubuntu but they did work under a different identity. I've trie to reinstall Wine. But things did not change.
Strange.
Any help ?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:56 PM, nonobstant <wineforum-user@winehq.org> wrote:

This seem to actually be a Ubuntu issue, rather than a Wine issue, but anyway...
Have look at your keyboard layout setting... (Preferences > Keyboard)

Under layouts, check the keyboard model and the layout (Mine, for the
occational Afrikaans, has the layout set to USA International (AltGr
dead keys) which requires right Alt / AltGr with the deadkeys in order
for it to work)

Under France there is quite a few layout options...

Gert

Check this out:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17307

It was happening to me exactly the same thing. After I installed Input Method Switcher (IMS) to use Japanese characters. Turns out that turning off the IMS allows those keys to operate normally after u restart X server

Hi nonobstant,

There's for instance this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30984
If you are having the same issue, you may add your experience to the bug report.