[Interest] Input method support in Qt 5 — clarification

[Dominik Wezel]

Hi Sérgio and André

After I wrote the last email, I became aware that I might be 
misunderstood and silently declassified as a moron.

The key composition as such *does* work, however it seems to be 
implemented with an unmodifiable set of standard compose-keys, either 
hard-coded or based on a key composition table I cannot locate nor access.

If I take the standard US/UTF-8 Compose file and edit it, my changes are 
not respected, whether I place it in the standard location 
(/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose), or in my home as 
/home/me/.XCompose.  This is also exactly the behaviour of the Gnome XIM 
--- which is why we had to set GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE to XIM in 
earlier KDE releases.

 From KDE 5 on (which uses Qt 5), this workaround does no longer work, 
and though it is easy to find complaints about that on the Web, there is 
only this single reference from Gatis Paeglis which points towards a fix 
for the problem.  However it is not clear whether the change was ever 
implemented, or how to enable it.  For it clearly is not working as 
advertized.

I have dozens and dozens of personal key compositions (for different 
scripts like Arabic, Thai, Greek, as well as typographic dashes, spaces 
and other signs) which I can no longer use.

So I am clearly interested in knowing whether there is any investigation 
in this direction, and what the outcome is.

Thanks for your comprehension.

Dominik