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That's a legacy behavior got from old typewriter machines in which the |
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accents did not move the carriage as normal characters did, just |
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printing the accent (that had to be high enough for upper case |
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letters) and waiting for the accented letter to do the move. |
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As far as I know, in KDE you may install an international layout |
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toggle, so different behaviors - and even quite different lay-outs - |
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may co-exist. |
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Francisco |
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt |
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>> > behave like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English |
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>> > (mostly Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International |
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>> > keyboards actually exists or if it's just a virtual layout. |
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>> > However, even then, it does not behave like the "Compose" key |
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>> > as described by the Wikipedia article, which makes it sound |
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>> > like a dead key. |
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>> |
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>> A dead key and a compose key are related, but not quite the |
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>> same thing. A dead key is one that when struck doesn't |
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>> generate a "letter" but instead modifies the "letter" that's |
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>> generated by the next keystroke. Unlike a modifier like |
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>> shift/alt/control, a dead key or a compose key is struck and |
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>> released and then the next key is struck. Some non-English |
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>> keyboards have deadicated deadkeys for commonly used accents. |
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>> Dead keys are more-or-less the equivalent of a typewriter key |
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>> that imprints a glyph onto the paper but doesn't move the |
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>> platen (or the type-ball, if you want to think like a |
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>> selectric). |
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>> What a compose key does is temporarily make the _next_ key |
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>> struck act like a dead key. |
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>> To enter ô, you strike compose, ^, o. Hitting compose makes |
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>> the ^ key temporarily into a dead key. |
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> nope, just ^ and o no other key. |
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> at least in kde. |
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-- |
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then |
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you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and |
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I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have |
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two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw |
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