Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Doug wrote:
> There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose"
> key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out

You must be joking.  That will work well only if you're writing english
text, which will require the use of the compose key rarely.

Perfect dead key support is a *must* for many languages.  It is a
reverse killer feature: if it is not there, it kills the product ;-)

You'll still want compose to input symbols such as "®" when AltGR
doesn't provide ready access to them (or you feel easier to remember the
digraph than the AltGR keymap).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh