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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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