Thanks for your comments, Osamu! Further tests showed that the problem is not m17n specific, but it's scim and gedit that don't work together with respect to the backspace and delete keys. Neither ibus nor fcitx has that issue. (The ibus issue Swarup mention above is something else.)
So, is it a bug in gedit and/or scim? For now bug reports have been filed against both packages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315579 Title: When using scim-m17n in gedit, the backspace and delete keys are dysfunctional To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1315579/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs