Re dead keys and X11
I wrote:
> I have successfully installed Debian Linux but a small problem remains. It may
> be related to the compose problem for which I haven't seen an answer.
>
> When using the X windows system, dead keys don't work... well applications
> receive an event like dead_acute and have to handle them. With Emacs, that
> is not a big problem, but I can't do it for xterms... It would not be annoying
> if the tilde (~) wasn't a dead key on my keyboard.
To solve the problem for xterms, I added a line
*XnlLanguage: fr_BE.ISO8859-1
in my system Xresources. After that, I could use the dead keys in the xterm
with one little problem: <dead_tilde> <space> could not generate an "~". I
had to modify /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose and change the
lines
<dead_tilde> <space> : "~" tilde
<SunFA_dead_tilde> <space> : "~" tilde
to
<dead_tilde> <space> : "~" asciitilde
<SunFA_dead_tilde> <space> : "~" asciitilde
(Is this a bug or a feature ? In this file, the lines for the compose sequences
are right)
For Emacs, I had to rely on my site-start to map dead keys sequences to the
corresponding characters.
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Jean-Marc Bourguet Service d'Electronique
Faculte polytechnique de Mons
Email : bourguet@muelec.fpms.ac.be Belgique
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