+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 > _______________________________________________ > fltk-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev ________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products
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