On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:10:16 +0200 Otto Stolz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that the keyboard layout does _not_ depend on the availability > of composed letters in the target encoding (Unicode, in your case). > > Rather, a keyboard driver can generate multiple Unicode characters > for a single keystroke, as well as a single or even multiple > characters for a sequence, or combination of keystrokes. Examples > (from the keyboard driver I am currently using): > key “E” generates single character “e”; > key combination “⇧”+“E” generates single character “E”; > key “Ü” generates single character “ü”, but could as well generate the > canonically equvalent sequence “ü” (U+75, U+308); > key combination “AltGr”-“E” generates single character “€” > key sequence “^” + “a” generates single character “â”, but could as > well generate canonically equivalent “â” (U+61, U+302 ) > key combination and sequence “AltGr”-“´” + “C” generates single > character “č”, but could as well … (you get the idea) Do you use the default keyboard driver of your operating system or some third-party keyboard driver? If you do use the default keyboard driver and it is this flexible, then can you tell us what operating system you use (or else the name of the third-party product)? Your advice may be somewhat misleading if Arns uses something else. I use Linux, and the last time I looked, xkb (the default keyboard driver of X11, which is the default graphical interface used in most Linuxes) did not seem to support generating several characters/code points for a single keystroke (to my greatest disappointment). Best Regards, Gy. Dobner
