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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:44:56 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Sunday, December 27, 2009 12:51:51 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. 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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+Here’s how to get some of the more common accented characters:
+<?plugin OldStyleTable
+|*accents* | *key sequence*
+| acute: á, é, í, ó, ú | compose-singlequote-''letter''
+| caret: â, ê, î, ô, û | compose-caret-''letter''
+| cedilla: ç | compose-comma-''letter''
+| grave: à, è, ì, ò, ù | compose-backquote-''letter''
+| macron: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū | compose-underscore-''letter''
+| tilde: ã, ñ, õ | compase-tilde-''letter''
+| umlaut: ä, ë, ï, ö, ü | compose-doublequote-''letter''
+?>
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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-To get macrons for Māori text, press compose-underscore-''vowel''.
But 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:
<?plugin OldStyleTable
|*description* | *looks like* | *key sequence*
-| opening double quote | “ | compose-lessthen
-doublequote
+| opening double quote | “ | compose-lessthan
-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
