amaya 8.6 and 8.6wx: difference in accent handling

Hello Amaya team!

I have been having problems with Amaya handling of accents for several years 
now!
In my present PC configuration (MandrakeLinux 10), I have _absolutely_ no 
problems with accented characters (e.g. é, ã) with any and every program I 
have installed, both in text-mode and in graphic mode. Except for... Amaya!

The old item "Enable Multikey" in Preferences has disappeared...

I havetried to build Amaya 8.6 (and also 8.5) from its sources, hoping to 
somehow solve the problem. The result is:
Amaya 8.6 (or 8.5) Motif: not supported anymore
Amaya 8.6 GTK : builds ok but accented characters do NOT work, because dead 
keys are _completely_ ignored!
Amaya 8.6 Wx+Mesa: builds ok, and now accented characters WORK, but general 
usability is close to zero (e.g. many dialogues do not even open - Styles, 
Attributes...)

How I am surviving: use Amaya 8.6 GTK for general editing and Amaya 8.6Wx+Mesa 
for completing the accented characters! That is a pain in the neck!

Now for the real question: what is it that the amaya team has done to make 
input handling (in particular regarding to dead keys) _different_ between GTK 
and Wx+mesa?
I would be grateful for some pointers regarding even how to make a ~ (tilde) 
appear in Amaya 8.6 GTK! (other than paste it through X pasting feature!)

Regards
José

PS: [In many ways, Amaya is still world wide unparalleled in the edition of 
standardized HTML. But basic usability issues were never solved...]
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Received on Monday, 4 October 2004 10:14:31 UTC