On 2009-02-18, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 dedicated 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. That's if your keyboard layout has dead keys. Mine doesn't. I'm talking about using a compose key (sorry if I wasn't clear). If you're using a compose key instead of dead keys, you do it they way I said: compose, ^, o. If I type ^ and o, then I get ^o. I'm set up to use a compose key. I don't have any dead keys. Like I said, some non-English keyboard layouts have dead keys (yours apparently does). US-English layout doesn't. That's why we configure a compose key. -- Grant
