Helge Hielscher wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:16:21 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key > > It is quite easy to define a compose key (if your distribution > has not set up a key for you). You don't need to change your x.org > config file. You can change the keys with the setxkbmap tool or a GUI > frontend like the KDE Keyboard Tool kxkb: > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/kxkb/xkboptions-config.html > Wikipedia was only somewhat my friend, lacking some specifics -- I'll check the second link. > > >> When I used Amigas years ago, they had a system that worked like the >> deadkey but didn't involve losing a printable character to do it. >> > > Care to explain how it worked? > I'm guessing that it was much like the compose key. Amigas had Amiga-keys, right and left, that were key modifiers like Ctrl and Alt. The advantage was that they were not likely to be abducted for software-specific tasks, and therefore could be system-wide keys. You didn't have to set up the keys for use for accented characters, it was built-in to the OS. One problem these days is that different computers have different keyboards.
Thanks. Greg
