Hi,
To get this whole affair clear:
1.1 What you're _supposed_ to do in order to use my changeset is just
find the right keys for the dead characters on your keyboard. That is:
^ (easy you use it for return statements)
° (more difficult on some keybords; german: shift-caret)
' (accent character)
` (other accent character)
~ (tilde, easy:used for /home directories)
¨ (diaeresis, very hard to find except on french keyboards and maybe
some others.
1.2 Now open a Workspace (I hope the editing component still inherits
from ParagraphEditor?!) and just begin typing: ^e should give you ê and
so on...

2. To make your changes to DeadCharacter Dictionary take effect just do
DeadCharacters := nil
this is because the comment (even though only a few hours of age) is
already outdated. DeadCharacters is _really_ a Class Variable and is
lazy initialized.

3. All the SUN international keyboards i came to see had this very neat
compose key with wich you could get (almost) any character from the
given code page you wanted. I worked very fine for me just that all
programs that control the keyboard directly don't really take accont of
these bindings. So I had to recode all the functionality within
emacs-lisp (I'm not sure if I will be able to dig up the code) and would
certainly have done it in squeak also if I this became my favorite
combination of tools (sun-squeak).
3.1 The principle is very easy: you press and release the compose-key
(all the way bottom right of the keyboard - easy to emulate by one of
the superfluous windows keys on linux-pcs) and then the next two keys
you insert will be combined to a new character according to a dictionary
in the system. compose-o-c would give you the copyright symbol and so
on.
3.2 Luckily all of the sun keyboards came with a little explanation of
this functionality in form of a sheet about 2x A4 folded into somthing
the size of a 3 1/2" Diskette (a little above). Maybe I will be able to
find one of those at my university... 

Keep squeaking, have fun
Torge
P.S.: You might want to add bindings for the inverse question mark even
if it is a little odd to type  '! for
PPS: If squeak doesn't have an unknown character glyph, what is the
rectangle that i get for the last couple of characters when printing
Characater>>allCharacters?

John Hinsley wrote:
> 
> "Richard A. O'Keefe" wrote:
> >
> > Torge Husfeldt <jean-jacques.gelee at gmx.de> wrote:
> >         The other solution I saw
> >         was the Sun-keyboards wich use a dedicated combine-key.
> >
> > The Sun model 3 keyboard doesn't have it.
> > On the "English" Sun keyboards that do, it is labelled "Compose".
> > The first time I saw such a thing was on DEC terminals; I have always
> > thought that's where it came from.
> > In the X Window System the compose key is regarded as obsolete; it took
> > me _ages_ to track down a list of which keys to use to get what character.
> > These days you are supposed to use 'input methods' instead, but at least
> > on this Solaris 2.8 box I have not been about to track down any information
> > about them.
> 
> apropos keyboard chucks up lots of man pages which *may* be relevant --
> on Linux anyway. But those that I've tried to date are pretty
> incomprehensible (it's always puzzled me that the inventor of Perl
> writes wonderful man pages). Barmy to be able to get a Hungarian menu at
> the click of a mouse, but not a nice graphical way of putting all these
> stupid surplus buttons that come on Windows keyboards to good use. Ah,
> there is a thing called Xcapkeys...... I'll take a look.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
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