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For instance, I can enter a pound £ or yen ¥ symbol, but not a Euro symbol; a copyright © but not trademark, and so on. All the characters seem to be defined in the system compose file (/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose), and I can see nothing different about the ones that work vs ones that don't.

I'm running OpenSuSE 13.1 with fvm2 window manager. IIRC, setup is just default US English. Working vs non-working seems to be the same in xterm, or in apps like the browser I'm using now.

The output of running locale; export | grep IM_MODULE is simply to run locale, and then to state export: Command not found. The output of locale is

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=fr_CH
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

(The LC_CTYPE is to make emails in French readable.) There doesn't seem to be an IM_MODULE variable in the environment. Doing env | grep IM gives

QT_IM_MODULE=xim
XMODIFIERS=@im=local
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla
QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi

But those don't seem relevant, as I'm not trying it with QT or GTK applications. (AFAIK, I don't know for sure what the browsers use under the hood.)

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  • Are you working on the same machine or remote logging from another ? If remotely connecting, the Compose keys of the actual system that you are using to connect could be picked up. Commented Jul 8, 2015 at 6:21
  • @Amit Kumar: Same machine, not a remote login, Commented Jul 8, 2015 at 17:54
  • Going by the characters you list, it seems that you're only getting latin1 characters. In an xterm where this happens, what's the output of locale; export | grep IM_MODULE? Commented Jul 8, 2015 at 22:16

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The character type LC_CTYPE=fr_CH tells X to use ISO-8859-1, which has copyright © and registered ® but not trademark ™. Euro, of course, is absent from ISO-8859-1 (that is in a different, later encoding: ISO-8859-15).

In /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias, you would see this:

fr_CH                                           fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.88591                                     fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.88591.en                                  fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.ISO-8859-1                                fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.ISO_8859-1                                fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.iso885915                         fr_CH.ISO8859-15
fr_CH.ISO-8859-15                               fr_CH.ISO8859-15
fr_CH.utf8                                      fr_CH.UTF-8

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