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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: 5 Sep 89 15:48:06 GMT
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    I need to create a French keyboard mapping that can be installed and
    removed at will, whether the physical keyboard happens to have French
    keycaps or not, whether I'm on a Sun server or an X terminal.

There is work-in-progress in the X Consortium to provide a mechanism to
support "dual-language" (and similar) keyboards, those with 1-4 keysyms
per keycode.  It is based on using a modifier to switch between keysym groups.
If you wanted "French" in the upper group, you would put the appropriate
Latin-1 keysyms (characters with diacritics, not non-spacing diacritics)
there and get them via a "shifting" key.  I don't know if this matches
your needs or not.  Assuming we work it out, support will be in Xlib in R4.