<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> Thank you for your replies I am using Debian Stable (bullseye) with KDE. @Juan and @Gerald. Yes, your way work. It works differently respect to what i was using which actually composes two characters, you first select the modifier, then select the letter. Quite powerful and flexible. @Ken. Yah Ken, i think you spot the hot point. It is the composition that is ignored. I can C, but this seems too advanced for my current level of total ignorance about the VM workings. I will keep Juan and Gerald method for the moment and put composition in the desiderata. Bye Nicola <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/22 22:40, Nicola Mingotti wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:75f29ba6-ac28-3cf2-4140-508bc0f22f16@gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Hi folks, Recently i started to use dead keys to type: à,è,ì,ò,ù,ñ.. this is quite cool. Today i started to type like that also in Cuis and observed it does not work. Is there some simple way to make it work ? This would be cool because when I don't have dead keys, i write e.g. "è" as "e'" and I disturb the string literal parser, then i need always to double quote as "e''", which is quite ugly. bye Nicola </blockquote> </body> </html>