Hi, I try since many days to set correctly the console to have accented characters. I'm usig SUSE 9.2, freshly installed. I have choose french-canadian as keyboard layout which should load cf.map.gz which include the line "compose as usual 8859-1". The keyboard is correctly set but the compose isn't working. In console i can't get accented characters. Also, with Opera Web browser, over KDE, Opera isn't get accented chars. It just display `e instead of egrave. I suppose Opera isn't take the X config because other apps as Kwrite or OpenOffice have correct accents. With all the behavior i can observe, i think the problem is when the keyboard driver try to compose. Here is an excerpt of dumpkeys --compose-only: compose '`' 'A' to ' compose '`' 'a' to ' compose '\'' 'A' to ' compose '\'' 'a' to ' compose '^' 'A' to ' compose '^' 'a' to ' compose '~' 'A' to ' compose '~' 'a' to ' compose '"' 'A' to ' compose '"' 'a' to ' compose 'O' 'A' to ' In YAST, under sysconfig, hardware, keyboard, i have the following value pair: cf.map.gz for KEYTABLE latin1.add for COMPOSETABLE I try some other combinations, utf8 instead of latin1.add, with and without clear keyword. But my composetable seems always empty. A clue? Thanks Ben Quebec, Canada