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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: dead keys again, and ISO 6937/2
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Date: 28 Aug 89 16:02:01 GMT
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    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.

I assume you are referring to "non-spacing diacritical marks".  If so,
I don't see the need for them.  There are already keysyms for letters
with diacritical marks.  There are also keysyms for the diacritical
marks themselves.  6937/2 has the non-spacing forms (as I understand
it) merely as a representation mechanism within an octet stream.  There
is no need for this in X keysyms.

	E6	IJ
	EA	OE
	F6	ij
	FA	oe

These are just ligatures, there's really no compelling reason to make
them actual keysyms, that I can see.

	F2	dstroke (Lappish, Croatian)

There is already a keysym for this.

	D5	musicalnote

I'm not very excited.

	E7	Ldot (Catalan)
	F7	ldot (Catalan)

I would want to see multiple people say they actually want these on their
keyboard.