Torge Husfeldt jean-jacques.gelee@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.