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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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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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It seems like a sensible way of doing things. I can't believe I had |
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never heard of it before! |
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> Me neither. I've set up right-ALT as my compose key. [How do |
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> you enter accented or non-latin characters without a compose |
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> key?] |
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I've used the US-International layout in KDE (or in Windows XP), where |
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AltGr acts as a modifier, and most characters needed for European |
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languages can be pressed with an easy AltGr-[key], but the compose key |
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seems like it would be easier to remember what does what (assuming you |
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don't have a keyboard with the international layout printed on the |
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keys). For example, AltGr-q makes ä which doesn't make a whole lot of |
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sense unless you've memorized it. KDE and WinXP allow you to easily |
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toggle between layouts, so if I'm in need of some "foreign" characters |
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(doing business in the UK and needing to type £ constantly, for |
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example), I'll just toggle the US-Intl layout off and on. Here is the |
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cheat sheet: |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-International.svg/800px-KB_US-International.svg.png |
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Thanks, |
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Paul |
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