Getting accents into Squeak

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Mon Oct 1 23:56:58 UTC 2001


John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
	apropos keyboard chucks up lots of man pages which *may* be relevant --
	on Linux anyway.

Under Solaris, the vast majority of them deal with 'curses'.
However, loadkeys/dumpkeys/keytables tell me that Solaris/Sun-4 keyboard
offers _three_ ways to get accented letters:

    - compose key
    - Alt Graph key; you can say what each key does on its own, or with
      the shift key, or with the Alt Graph key, but you cannot say what
      it does with shift AND Alt Graph.  It would be OK for things like
      inverted question mark and exclamation mark, fractions, currency
      symbols, mu, &c, but not so good for letters.
    - dead keys (called "floating accent" keys): acute, cedilla,
      circumflex, grave, tilde, umlaut.

It's possible to combine Alt Graph and "dead key", e-acute could for
example by <AltGraph + '> e.  For someone who needs a lot of accented
letters, it might be acceptable to swipe some of the function keys and
use them as accent dead keys.

The documentation does NOT make clear whether the X Window System pays
any attention to these keytables.

Xkeycaps is a _great_ tool.




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