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From: justin@HARRY.CRIM.CA (Justin Bur)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: dead keys again, and ISO 6937/2
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Date: 26 Aug 89 22:56:42 GMT
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There is one more ISO character set that predates those defined
in ISO 8859 (Latin 1-4, etc.).  This is ISO 6937/2, which attempts
to consolidate the videotex/teletext standards S.61 and S.100 of
the CCITT, and on which the PostScript Standard Encoding seems to
have been based.

ISO 6937/2 reserves sixteen positions (and defines 14 of them)
for symbols that must be combined with others before being
displayed - dead keys, in other words.  In addition, this
character set defines a few other characters, some even
conceivably useful, that do not appear in any of the 8859
character sets or even in other X11 keysym sets.

Here are the additional characters provided in 6937/2.  Unless
some other solution has been adopted for the dead keys, I
would like to suggest these as a new keysym set for X11.

	C1	dead_grave
	C2	dead_acute
	C3	dead_circumflex
	C4	dead_tilde
	C5	dead_macron
	C6	dead_breve
	C7	dead_abovedot
	C8	dead_diaeresis
	CA	dead_ring
	CB	dead_cedilla
	CC	dead_underscore
	CD	dead_doubleacute
	CE	dead_ogonek
	CF	dead_caron

	D5	musicalnote
	E6	IJ
	E7	Ldot (Catalan)
	EA	OE
	EF	apostrophe_n (Afrikaans)
	F2	dstroke (Lappish, Croatian)
	F6	ij
	F7	ldot (Catalan)
	FA	oe

Please consult the standard for what little additional information
is given about some of the stranger characters.

Justin Bur
CRIM, Montreal