[Bug: 21.4.11] dead keys on Windows

================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I observe the following behaviour with the dead key buttons on my keyboard (^Ž`): If I press the key twice, two of the characters are inserted into the buffer. This is standard Windows behaviour (as in notepad, for example). If I press the key once, than press the space bar, a space is inserted. If I press the key again, two characters are inserted. This is different from Notepad's behaviour: Pressing the dead key followed by a blank inserts the ^ only in the buffer, for example. All this is fine when I have to enter one of these characters in a buffer, I press the key twice and delete the last one again. But the behaviour is weird if I have to use commands bound to ^, C-c ^, or so. Googling for this I found this message http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs/199909/msg00371.html but there hasn't been a reply. Any chance that this could be fixed? Or is there a magic init.el entry which will fix this? Thanks, Thomas Here is a reply I received from the c.e.xemacs group: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- OS version: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support (Windows)" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Building XEmacs in "f:\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4-release\\nt". Using compiler "cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -ML". Installing XEmacs in "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.11". Package path is "~\\.xemacs;;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages". Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. 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