[ILUG] UTF-8, how to type ``Latin Small Letter e With Acute''?

[Brian Foster]

 I've been playing with using UTF-8 encoding (rather than
 ISO-8859-15) with the Xfree86 v4.<something> supplied with
 my SuSE 7.3 system.  whilst there are numerous niggles,
 the issue currently driving me batty is I cannot figure out
 how to input (type in) characters such as  é  (Latin Small
 Letter e with Acute; that is, ISO-8859-15 code E9 hex, or
 UTF-8 octet stream C3 A9 hex) from my UK+€ (English) QWERTY
 keyboard.

 using ISO-8859-15, it's simple --- type the keysequence:

   <COMPOSE> <'> <e>

 i.e., the COMPOSE "key" (e.g., <SHIFT_Left>+<CONTROL_Right>)
 followed first by the ' key and then the e key.

 that does nothing using UTF-8.  that is, after the COMPOSE,
 the following two keys (' then e, or in fact, anything then
 anything) seem to vanish into a black hole.

 the xmodmap has not changed (AFAIK), i.e. I'm using the same
 one with UTF-8 as I was with ISO-8859-15.  (this seems like
 it might be the problem except I can't quite work out why?)

 I'm using ``xterm -u8'' with an ISO-10646-1 font that has the
 necessary  é  glyph, and (AFAIK) the locale is consistent (and
 not relevant?).  sans ``-u8'' COMPOSE works, so it's not an
 xterm(1) problem per se (unlike, or so it seems, Eterm(1)).

 what am I doing wrong, and/or have overlooked ??

cheers!
	-blf-
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