Re: What happened to compose? Yet more information
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:52:12AM -0500, dman wrote:
| On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
| | We found this this morning:
| |
| | In bash type Ctrl-v Ctrl-. "e and then get ë.
|
| Do you have bash (readline) in "vi" mode or "emacs" mode? In vim I
| can type ^V to escape the next character (allows entering in control
| characters directly) or to type "x<1 byte hex code>" or
| "u<2 byte hex unicode code>" and enter in any character.
|
| | No locale and language settings seems to make any difference.
|
| The ^V^."e trick doesn't work for me.
(bash and vim on solaris)
Back on the debian console with dead keys, the ^V^."e<space> gives the
umlaut (as does "e).
-D
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