Bug 33259

Summary:	en_US.UTF-8 locale references common/xiiimp for XIM
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Lorenzo Marcantonio <lomarcan>
Component:	Lib/Xlib (data)	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Lorenzo Marcantonio 2011-01-18 14:24:22 UTC

With libX11-1.4.0 I noticed that the compose key stopped working, and xterm started with an error about an error starting the input method. A quick strace pointed me to the share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XI18N_OBJS file

It contains the lines:

XIM    common/xiiimp           _SwitchOpenIM           # XIM_open
XIM    common/xiiimp           _XimpLocalOpenIM        # XIM_open

(the xiiimp library isn't found, googling it seems to be a Solaris one)

Shouldn't it be using the common/ximcp module, instead? (I think it's responsible for the compose key feature). I tried replacing these two lines
with:

XIM     common/ximcp            _XimOpenIM              # XIM_open
XIM     common/ximcp            _XimLocalOpenIM         # XIM_open

which were the most plausible according to the sources... no more error with xterm and the compose key resumed working. Please note I have *no idea* on how XIM works, but I wanted to known if the xiiimp part is correct or not (maybe it's from another package I didn't found)

Comment 1 James Cloos 2011-01-18 15:25:43 UTC

That goes all the way back to the initial commit in the libX11 git repo
(based on the sources from X11R6.6).

I do not know why it is different than the rest of the IE18N_OBJS files.

Comment 2 Julien Cristau 2011-01-19 02:14:32 UTC

--enable-loadable-i18n is all broken.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8144 ***

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