On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt > > behave like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English > > (mostly Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International > > keyboards actually exists or if it's just a virtual layout. > > However, even then, it does not behave like the "Compose" key > > as described by the Wikipedia article, which makes it sound > > like a dead key. > > A dead key and a compose key are related, but not quite the > same thing. A dead key is one that when struck doesn't > generate a "letter" but instead modifies the "letter" that's > generated by the next keystroke. Unlike a modifier like > shift/alt/control, a dead key or a compose key is struck and > released and then the next key is struck. Some non-English > keyboards have deadicated deadkeys for commonly used accents. > Dead keys are more-or-less the equivalent of a typewriter key > that imprints a glyph onto the paper but doesn't move the > platen (or the type-ball, if you want to think like a > selectric). > > What a compose key does is temporarily make the _next_ key > struck act like a dead key. > > To enter รด, you strike compose, ^, o. Hitting compose makes > the ^ key temporarily into a dead key.
nope, just ^ and o no other key. at least in kde.
