On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 00:47 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > Hi, > "Keyboard shortcuts for international characters", discussed at > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051865621033.aspx > allow a user in Windοws to write common western european accented > characters without bothering to install a keymap and having to switch > between languages. > > For example, you get shortcuts of the sort: > CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter > à, è, ì, ò, ù, > À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù > > and the dead key is "Ctrl-`". > > For more, see this Mozilla Bugzilla report: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270439 > > Where would this be implemented, through the standard X server XKB file? There is sort of a gap here between "Microsoft" and "X server"... :-) Assuming that you are actually talking about X: Both Xlib and GTK+ have (separate) compose tables for dead key symbols, so if you map your X keyboard to provide dead keys in some location, they will be composed properly. X keyboard configuration through XKB is a black art; if you are using GNOME, you can experiment with the provided config files with gnome-keyboard-properties; going beyond that isn't easy. Regards, Owen
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