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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 7:33:31 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | Revert |
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-A key recognized by [X] that you can use to enter a whole range of [Unicode] characters with mnemonic key sequences. For example, compose-singlequote-e to enter an “é” (e-acute) character.
+A key recognized by [X] that you can use to enter a whole range of [Unicode] characters with mnemonic key sequences. For example, compose-singlequote-e to enter an “é” (e-acute) character. Note this is not a “modifier” key, it’s more like a “dead” key—you press it, let it go, then press the rest of the keys in the sequence in turn
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By default this function is not assigned to any key. You can tell the X server what key to use for this function with a command of the form
<tt>setxkbmap -option compose:</tt>''keyname''
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<tt>/usr/share/X11/locale/</tt>''localename''<tt>/Compose</tt>
To get the largest choice of characters, make sure you select a [UTF-8]-encoded locale.
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+This can be useful even if you don’t write accented characters and text in multiple languages: the characters available include typographic niceties like the following:
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+<?plugin OldStyleTable
+|*description* | *looks like* | *key sequence*
+| opening double quote | “ | compose-lessthen-doublequote
+| closing double quote | ” | compose-greaterthan-doublequote
+| opening single quote | ‘ | compose-lessthan-singlequote
+| closing single quote/apostrophe | ’ | compose-greaterthan-singlequote
+| em-dash | — | compose-hyphen-hyphen-hyphen
+?>
