Re: [orca-list] Typing diacrytics

[Christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>]

Was gonna say. I'd heard of a "dead" key, but not a compose key.


Chris.


On 02/24/2019 06:21 AM, Mallard wrote:
> Interesting! I had something like this on a manual typewriter when I 
> was in high school. Since I was studying languages, i needed to have 
> diffeent symbols for different languages, but that was long before IBM 
> came out with their electric typewriters with character heads...
>
>
> I had a so-caleld "international keyboard", with a couple of dead keys 
> that wouldn't move when you pressed them. You had to press these keys 
> before the letter yo wanted to modify, and then the actual letter key.
>
>
> Is this how this Compose key works?
>
>
> Thhanks for pointing me to this feature.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Ollie
>
>
>
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> Il 23/02/2019 19:36, Samuel Thibault ha scritto:
> > Christopher Gilland via orca-list, le sam. 23 févr. 2019 13:23:57 
> > -0500, a ecrit:
> > > I've never heard of the "compose" key. Can you further explain?
> > It's a key which allows to "glue" the keys typed just after it.
> >
> > See e.g. https://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
> >
> > Samuel
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