https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405236
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--- Comment #7 from Mike Fabian 2008-07-01 11:39:21 MDT ---
Compose should work even when scim is running though¹, and it *does*
work for me. Scim has it’s own build-in Compose support which is
unfortunately hardcoded and implements the contents of
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose a few years ago. That
means, all Compose-sequences which have not been changed recently work
with scim as well.
James Su implemented it this way because he thought that parsing
the Compose table at runtime would be too slow.
I have recently written a Perl-script to generate the source files for
scim used for the hardcoded Compose support from the
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose which is available at build
time. That is somewhat better because scim then uses the same Compose
table which was on the system where scim was compiled. Still not
perfect though because somebody could edit the Compose table later,
but I think this is very rare. A user specific compose table in
~/.XCompose will currently also fail to work with scim because this is
not parsed when scim starts either.
Footnote:
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¹ except when scim-bridge is used, i.e. when QT_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
is used with a Qt3 or Qt4 appliction or GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge is
used with a GTK2 application. There seems to be a problem with
scim-bridge.
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