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On 2009-02-18, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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 dedicated 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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That's if your keyboard layout has dead keys. Mine doesn't. |
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I'm talking about using a compose key (sorry if I wasn't clear). |
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If you're using a compose key instead of dead keys, you do it |
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they way I said: compose, ^, o. |
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If I type ^ and o, then I get ^o. |
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I'm set up to use a compose key. I don't have any dead keys. |
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Like I said, some non-English keyboard layouts have dead keys |
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(yours apparently does). US-English layout doesn't. That's |
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why we configure a compose key. |
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Grant |
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