+1

On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:

> 
> Do we want to keep this feature or eliminate it?
> 
> Please vote!
> 
> 
> In FLTK, pressing the right Ctrl key in combination with two more keystroke 
> will (should - it seems to be broken) combine those two keyboard characters 
> in a more or less meaningful way.
> 
> For example, Ctrl+A+" could produce Ä (A-Umlaut), etc. . This seems to be 
> broken now that we use UTF8. 
> 
> The compose key is a remainder from the times where international support was 
> rare on Unix and German keyboards were not available on SGI (yes, that's how 
> old that is ;-)
> 
> I wonder if we should keep composing around at all. Todays X11 clients are 
> well aware of international keyboards, so entering whatever local character 
> should be easily done without FLTK interfering with user settings.
> 
> BTW, we threw all the FLTK composition stuff overboard on OS X already (their 
> laptops have no right Ctrl key to begin with). Maybe it's time to do that on 
> Unix and MSWindows as well?!
> 
> - Matthias
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