wine users - Oct 2001 - Dead keys on Wine

Hello,

I use wine (release 20010824) for Lotus Notes R5 and sometimes Winzip. It works
fine with some customizations and in desktop mode instead of managed window
mode.
My problem is that I am French and I cannot use dead keys which is very annoying
with french language.
For example a 'e' with a circumflex accent is usually obtained by typing
successively '^' and 'e'. In wine it doesn't work and I
simply get '^e' instead
of '?'. Of course, the dead keys work correctly in other X applications.
I must
also precise that my french keyboard is well recognized by Wine (no error
message at startup).
I have tried to use xmodmap to affect some key to the '?' or '?'
and then a '?'
is displayed in wine instead of the letters.
Has anybody encountered this problem? Is there a known solution?
Thank you for any answer,

Roland Baudin
Ing?nieur de Recherche / Research Engineer
Tel : +33 5 34 35 55 16
Fax: +33 5 34 35 51 52
roland.baudin@space.alcatel.fr
RT/TB/N


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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:12:03 +0200, Roland.Baudin@space.alcatel.fr
wrote:
>I use wine (release 20010824) for Lotus Notes R5 and sometimes Winzip.
>It works
>fine with some customizations and in desktop mode instead of managed
wi>ndow
>mode.
>My problem is that I am French and I cannot use dead keys which is very>
annoying
>with french language.
Yes.

it does not seem possible right now.
FYI it was already posted here by Dmitry Timoshkov that this would
require a large rewrite of the font code. 

Gerard