accents dont work more with >=tcl/tk 8.4.13

Fukai

Hi! i posted this in bugzilla a long time for no response. Now i think the forum is a best try.
I updated my tcl/tk from .12 to .13 but now i can't input accents. I can copy and paste accented char and put a ' and ^ but not an â or an é in tk programs.
I tested this in amsn (the program i need) and emerged other tcl/tk programs like tkdvd but no accents for me.
Tested with 8.4.13 and from a manual compiled 8.5, neither works.
Tested with other LC_ALL (utf and not utf).
Tested with kde, fluxbox, ion, no-wm from a Xnest...
Re-compiled with other cflags with gcc-3.4 and 4.1
my emerge --info:

Fukai · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:06 am Post subject:

Uhh.. i don't find how to solve the problem yet but i think i find a good (??) solution. I used scim to input japanese
but now i am using scim to input "english" too and i can input accented chars in amsn! (and i solved other accents
problem with OO to but uhh i dont need accents in OO because i only use it to open win-user files ^_^.)

Thx, i don't put 'solved' because the problem (tcl/tk don't input accents) is not already solved ^_^.

PiRmD · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry to "resurrect" this old topic but can you shortly describe how do you managed to have SCIM work with aMsn ? I desperately try to obtain such result but no chance till now

Fukai · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

Take a look at this howto
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese
This is to japanese input so you need to filter the needed parts, I think you need to do
the things in "Input Methods" (only the uim part) and "Graphical Input Method selection"
(now I learned what this uim, scim, anthy is all about the uim is what you realy need but scim
can be good for selection of different input methods and with you use kde install skim).

With this you gonna have a tray and can chose you input method. Any that input latin chars works
(uim-direct, uim-latin, English...).

But this method have a bug sometimes it stop working and you can't input any char. The only solution
is to restart amsn. And a workaround is to change input method to keyboard (really this disable the
input method) but with this you don't have accented chars... This happens (I think) when you are typing something
in amsn and pass the mouse off the amsn win and amsn loses the focus.

And no problem in resurrecting this old topic. Is really sad to don't have accents in language that use it.
If you need some more info (or a clarification of my bad english) plz ask! ^__^'

PiRmD · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

Many thanks for your help and your swift answer ! I'll try uim and see if it helps. I, like you, am really lacking any good IM that both support accent/chinese and MSN with webcam

PiRmD · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

OK, I have installed uim.
uim is working perfectly with any GTK apps (with or without scim) *but* I cannot summon it with amsn. Is there some trick to have tcl/tk-based programs recognize uim ? I am missing something ?

Fukai · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

You change the input method?
You need to change it using scim (I don't know how to do it direct with
uim using a no gtk app)
Is scim running? What is the output of 'ps aux|grep scim'?

PiRmD · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

Well...
In a first attempt, I have tried scim + amsn without success
Then following your answer I installed uim + scim-uim but still no success with amsn
I then stop scim to keep only uim, but here again nothing was working with amsn
But for each case, any gtk-based application where happily accepting any chinses input from scim, scim+uim or just uim

So I though that there might be some specific configuration to be done to have scim and/or uim work with amsn...

Fukai · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

Uhh... how is the variable XMODIFIER set (remember that set it on a shell don't set it on X)?

PiRmD · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:11 am Post subject:

I have set $XMODIFIERS to @im=uim (or @im=scim)
but I have no $XMODIFER variable set ...

I don't understand your meaning