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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: dead keys again, and ISO 6937/2
Message-ID: <2400@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 30 Aug 89 18:37:04 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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.

Are there keyboards that have both a "dead key" for any of those
diacritical marks and a non-dead key (e.g., if you hit the "dead accent
grave" key followed by the "a" key, an editor program supporting an ISO
Latin #1 character set would insert an "a with grave accent" character
into the file, and if you hit the "accent grave" key, it would insert an
"accent grave" character into the file)?