On 10/24/22 22:05, John Jason Jordan wrote:
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I could do the same thing for any other language that requires
completely non-Latin characters. But I also sometimes write in Spanish,
French and German, and for those I just use the Compose key rather than
switch to a completely different keyboard. When I enabled the Compose
key I assigned it to the Windows key, otherwise useless on Ubuntu. If I
want (e.g.) an ä I hold down the Windows key, type a double quote, then
the a, and the process gives me an ä. All I have to remember is that a
double quote gives me an umlaut, a single quote gives me an acute
accent, a back quote produces an accent grave, and an > gives an accent
circumflex. There are lots more possibilities, and I have memorized the
sequences for a few more, like ß, !, ¿, etc.
Huh. I didn't know that the Compose key could be used in that way. I
always use it as a separate keystroke, not as a shift-like modifier. I
just tried it here and it works as you described. I wonder if this
works due to key rollover support. Anyway, all of the following work,
at least for me on my CentOS 7 xfce desktop.
Compose held, ', a -> á
Compose held, a, ' -> á
Compose, ', a -> á
Compose, a, ' -> á
...
I should have read the wikipedia article first. Entering the
diacritical first allows for the use of more than one diacritical. It
sounds like the Compose key may or may not be a modifier key. It is
system or configuration dependent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key>
galen
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