[Users] claws-mail-3.7.4: Can't type non-ascii in message composer

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:58:14 +0100, Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:25:30 +0500
> Nikita Zlobin <nick87720z at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 17:10:09 +0100
> > Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> >   
> > > 
> > > From my UK keyboard, it's AltGr then 4 gives €    
> > 
> > Hm, for me it is '¼', but only with short. Without Shift it is just
> > $. But, just one more case to ensure that Ctrl key doesn't cause
> > problem. Since $ is in standard charset, it is typed ok. But above
> > fracture char is not.  
> 
> AltGr 4 -> €  AltGr Shift 4 -> ¼ here in the compose window. Now
> admittedly I'm using claws 3.16.0 so it's not a good test, but it does
> rather suggest that your problem is something to do with your desktop
> or other outside factor and not with claws. But it would be
> interesting to know more details of how the compose window is
> produced perhaps, to understand what in the environment might be
> different just for it?

On most Linux distributions, Compose files have several defines for
your characters. On my openSUSE I see 13 possible ways to get the €
and 2 key combinations to get ¼

You could most like check what is supported in your session by
something similar to (where en_US.UTF-8 matches your $LANG or $LC_ALL)

$ grep ¼ /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
<Multi_key> <1> <4>                     : "¼"   onequarter # VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER

$ grep ¼ ~/.XCompose
<Multi_key> <1> <4>                     : "¼"   # QUARTER1_IDX
<Multi_key> <4> <1>                     : "¼"   # QUARTER1_IDX

$ grep € /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
<Multi_key> <C> <equal>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <C>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <c> <equal>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <c>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <E> <equal>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <E>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <e> <equal>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <e>                 : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <Cyrillic_ES> <equal>       : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <Cyrillic_ES>       : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <Cyrillic_IE> <equal>       : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <Cyrillic_IE>       : "€"   EuroSign # EURO SIGN
<dead_currency> <e>                   : "€"   EuroSign            # EURO SIGN

$ grep € ~/.XCompose
<Multi_key> <C> <equal>                 : "€"   U20a0 # EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
<Multi_key> <c> <equal>                 : "€"   U20a0 # EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <C>                 : "€"   U20a0 # EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
<Multi_key> <equal> <c>                 : "€"   U20a0 # EURO-CURRENCY SIGN

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