On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:33:12PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:56, Denis Barbier wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:25:18AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Of course we could put ralt_switch_multikey back in Debian, but if your > > keyboard has some spare keys, adding a compose: option would be much > > better. > > It could well be that I misunderstand the comment about ralt, but... > > Please leave support for ralt for composing characters. It is essential > for Dutch users who normally have a keyboard with US layout but need to > be able to easily type accented characters like é è ë ó ç. > > IMO ralt is by far the cleanest way to do that. > > My current keyboard settings are (in Sarge KDE): > setxkbmap -option -option grp:switch,compose:ralt
Hi Frans, this option is still supported, and there is no reason to drop it. The issue here is that historically Shift+AltGr was defined as a compose key, but this caused trouble, see #270235 for instance. Denis