[racket] Dr. Racket and XCompose

From: Edward Z. Yang (ezyang at mit.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 11 23:17:44 EST 2014

OK, this tip lead me to a workaround: [1]

> Use the uim GTK input method (install uim, then export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim
> in your ~/.gnomerc; thanks to uim’s author, Etsushi Kato, for pointing
> me his solution).

I've verified this works.

Cheers,
Edward

[1] https://github.com/leoboiko/pointless-xcompose

Excerpts from Matthew Flatt's message of 2014-01-11 18:43:04 -0800:
> Yes, I think it's the toolkit. Racket builds on Gtk for its GUI on
> Unix/X, and my impression is that Gtk does not use XCompose.
> 
> At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:24:38 -0800, "Edward Z. Yang" wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > I was attempting to use some of my XCompose bindings while in
> > DrRacket, but it didn't work.  While strace'ing DrRacket, I noticed
> > that it wasn't looking at my XCompose configuration.  Does anyone
> > know why this might be?  Does it have to do with the GUI toolkit Racket
> > is using?
> > 
> > Edward
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