Kevin, Take a look to be sure you are using the iso8859-1 character set first. I think that is the default setup, but you may have changed that or your setup might have used something else. The characters, I believe, should work for you, if that is the case. You can also find other character sets at the same location: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ Take a look to see what you are using as your default first then locate the correct directory at the above location and your special characters should be listed there, I think. ;o) I have not done extensive research into this, so someone more experienced with such things may have to jump in and enlighten both of us. As a side note, this is what your key sequence gives me for compose keys-comma-comma ( ¸ ) and this is a regular comma ( , ) Now compose keys-shifted comma-shifted comma gives: « like you mentioned. Regards, Patrick ============================ On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:37, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Original Kevin here... with US-English keyboard I'm having limited success. Some combinations do what the /Compose file says they should. Others do nothing, or give different characters than expected.
For example, [Multi-key][comma][comma] is supposed to generate the cedilla. Instead, I get:
a) the "«" character (looks like a compressed "<<" if I keep the [Multi-key] depressed for both [commas]
b) or a dead-key that does nothing else if I type the second [comma] with [Multi-key] released.
My experience with Windoze has led me to expect a certain result when a dead-key is typed, followed by a letter that can accept the modification for that particular dead-key. In this case, I was expecting that a cedilla would be added to a "c" or a "C".
Also, typing the suggested combination for Udiaeresis gives the expected result, but how do I get udiaeresis (the lowercase version)? Since I'm already holding down the shift key as part of the [Multi-] key combo, I seem to get the uppercase Udiaeresis all the time. If I release the [Multi] before typing the second character of the suggested combo, I get Uacute (or some other)...
This is probably something quite dumb and simple, but I'm missing it. (As you can see, I don't do this often...)
/kevin
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