Hello, I am using Debian for some time now and something is really bothering me: using the compose key to get accented characters (that 3 key strokes instead of 2 and not very ergonomic).
As a Portuguese speaker very often I need to write documents where there are lots of accents and most of the X applications don't support them well. I would like to know if there is any STANDARD way to add to X the ability to deal with dead keys. I am already using a package called: /sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/keyboards/diacrd-brazilian-0.31.1 which, in spite of some small bugs, it works well. It uses a kernel-patch and a daemon to translate accents when we use the keyboard in raw mode (i.e. on X). After I installed it all my X applications started working: netscape, staroffice and more. But I am no hacker, so I feel uncomfortable on using such non-official kernel patches. More than that, if I understood well some comments from the authors this package introduces some security problems (that I think are not important to me since my computer is stand-alone with only ppp access to the net trough a provider). So once more my question: is there any canonical way to convince X to work with dead keys? Surely such a support would be very welcomed by lots of Latin languages speakers. Thank you. Paulo. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null