On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:24:14AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 27 Aug 2006, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's another item to add to my list of things that broke when I > > updated to Dapper... > > > > In Breezy I could switch through to a Spanish keyboard, and ' followed > > by an a would type an accented a; in Dapper it doesn't work any more :-( > > This behaviour is called "dead keys", in case you're trying to search > for it. (Dead because the initial character apparently does nothing.)
Disclaimer -- I know next to nothing about this stuff. I was thinking it's a silly name innit? Clearly it does something. If I was to such search for it, I'd search for 'multikey chars' or something like that. In fact googling(tm) for multikey deadkeys leads me to the belief that there is such a thing as multikey accent support. And the difference between 'dead keys' and 'multi keys' is that 'dead keys' are handled by the keyboard, and result in a single scan code/whatever, whereas 'multi keys' are handled by the software e.g. set for X in the Xkb utility. Anyone care to confirm/elucidate/flame? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
