bug#518: Dutch input method flooded with Turkish conversation sequences

[Andrew Hyatt]

I've confirmed that this problem still exists in Emacs 25.

coriordan@vorcha.compsoc.com (Ciaran O'Riordan) writes:

> When I set the input method to "dutch", and I type an 's' followed by a comma 
> (which is as common in Dutch as it is in English) I get ş (s with a 
> squiggle).  Further, it seems that all characters that are needed for typing 
> in Turkish have been given a key sequence in the Dutch input method. For 
> someone who just wants to write in Dutch, this is frustrating enough for the 
> dutch input method to be not worth using. 
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>  of 2008-05-03 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
> configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
> '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
> '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
> '--with-pop=yes' 
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs22:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.1/leim'
>  '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 
> 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 
> -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8@euro
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Group
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   gnus-undo-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   display-time-mode: t
>   encoded-kbd-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> a v e SPC s o m e SPC s u p p o r t e r s C-p C-e C-f 
> C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f 
> C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-k C-x b RET q g n n n 
> p p RET RET ESC > C-r m i n a RET ESC > C-r i m DEL 
> l h m DEL DEL m h RET ESC > C-r j a p a DEL o n RET 
> q C-x b RET C-x b RET g g p p p p p p p p p n RET RET 
> q g p p p p p p p p p p p RET E E q g n n n RET E q 
> g n n n n n n n n n n n n n n RET RET ESC > q g g p 
> p p p RET E q g g n n p p p p p p p p p p p p p RET 
> RET ESC > C-p C-p RET C-g n C-g q g g g g g g g m C-n 
> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-o C-o C-n ESC x s e t - i n p u TAB 
> RET d u t TAB RET s ; DEL DEL s , C-p C-f C-k C-x k 
> RET y e s RET m C-x k RET ESC x e m a c s - b u TAB 
> TAB TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL TAB TAB ESC DEL b u g TAB TAB 
> TAB C-h a b u g RET C-x o C-v C-v q C-x 0 ESC x e r 
> e DEL DEL DEL r e p o TAB r t TAB RET
>
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