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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > I noticed that the terminal program I've used for years (aterm) |
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>> > recently stopped working with the "compose" key (for generating |
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>> > accented or "foreign" characters, for example). |
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>> > |
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>> > The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt, |
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>> > xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based apps. But, it doesn't |
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>> > work in aterm or urxvt. |
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>> > |
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>> > I'm particularly surprised that it works in rxvt (which has |
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>> > been abandoned for years), but not in in rxvt-unicode (built |
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>> > with iso14755 and unicode3 options enabled) which is actively |
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>> > developed and intended to support internationalization. |
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>> > |
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>> > Does anybody else have problems with the compose key and aterm |
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>> > or urxvt? |
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>> |
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>> I've never owned a keyboard with a "Compose" key, actually I had never |
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>> even heard of it. Wikipedia has some info about how you might go about |
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>> setting it up. |
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>> |
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key |
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>> |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Paul |
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> |
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> of course you have. On your keyboard it is labeled as 'alt gr' |
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I don't have AltGr on any keyboard I've ever seen, other than in |
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pictures. US English keyboards don't have any of this "foreign" |
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language support. :) We just have two Alt keys, which both behave |
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identically (they do have different scancodes, though). Here's what it |
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looks like: http://www.cooltoyzph.com/image/US_Keyboard_layout.jpg |
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There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt behave |
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like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English (mostly |
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Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International keyboards |
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actually exists or if it's just a virtual layout. However, even then, |
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it does not behave like the "Compose" key as described by the |
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Wikipedia article, which makes it sound like a dead key. It's just a |
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modifier, like Shift. It doesn't indicate any combining of following |
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keystrokes. Maybe it does act like that for other layouts. It's all |
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news to me, as I've never used any non-US keyboard. :) |
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Thanks, |
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Paul |
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