Comment 2 for bug 74360

I have just discovered that there are two problems here.

One is that compose key combinations are not what they were. For instance I used to use [ gu ] for a g-breve (as per http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWdev/I18NDG/p25.html etc.), but now it is [ Ug ].

The other problem is that some compose key combinations work in some applications but not others.

For instance [ ss ] for ß works in all the applications I have tried it in, whereas [ Ug ] for ğ works in Konqueror, Kate, Konsole, LyX, OpenOffice (i.e. openoffice.org-kde; openoffice.org-gnome might possibly behave differently) and Opera, but not in Gedit Firefox, or Gxine. I think this is a gnome/gtk thing (which would also explain why it doesn't work in Abiword or SeaMonkey) because I read somewhere that gnome overrides some of the compose key functionality for some reason. I also read that if you append

export GTK_IM_MODULE = "xim"

to your /etc/environment, this will disable the gnome override. However this doesn't work for me.

I am actually a KDE user, but the GTK applications misbehave like this anyway.