Write cannot handle Composed dead characters

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>> It looks like Write is unable to handle Composed dead characters, at
>>> least for the Amharic keyboard.
>>>
>>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8127
>>>
>>> Things are more complicated by the fact that the right click menu in
>>> Write has been disabled, so I have no way of knowing which GTK input
>>> module is active with Write.
>>> Any ideas - is this a known problem with Write ?
>>>       
>> May be you need to set GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable?
>>     
>
>
> We are already setting this in olpc-session.
>   

Not sure if it actually matters here but...

gtk is preloaded by rainbow, which is run as a system daemon and hence 
doesn't get the same environment of olpc-dm runned processes. If gtk 
does something with GTK_IM_MODULE in gtk_init(), we are probably in 
troubles. Easy way to verify is to disable rainbow by removing 
/etc/security.

Marco