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Bug 766588

Summary: xkbcommon: ERROR: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "eo.utf8"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: МАН69К <gentoo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal CC: jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description МАН69К 2021-01-22 20:26:10 UTC
Hi. I use Esperanto locale:

# grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen 

eo UTF-8
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

# locale
LANG=eo.utf8
LC_CTYPE="eo.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="eo.utf8"
LC_TIME="eo.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="eo.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="eo.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="eo.utf8"
LC_PAPER="eo.utf8"
LC_NAME="eo.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="eo.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="eo.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="eo.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="eo.utf8"
LC_ALL=

When I start some applications from terminal ("kitty" in Sway) I got this error:

xkbcommon: ERROR: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "eo.utf8"
qt.xkb.compose: failed to create compose table

From /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias "eo" is a "eo_XX.ISO8859-3".

From /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir compose file for "eo_XX.ISO8859-3" is a iso8859-3/Compose.

And I have this file:

# ls -lhFA /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-3/Compose
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23K Jan  3 10:03 /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-3/Compose

So why I have this error?
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2021-01-23 02:31:50 UTC
See also:
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/xkbcommon-FAQ#compose

It is sad to read that you have problems with the locales. The situation seems to be a bit more complicate and requires some analysis.
We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. 

I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3].
I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4].
Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product.

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
[2] https://forums.gentoo.org/
[3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html
[4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/