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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
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Subject: Re: Need To Create European Translations of Xmh Resources?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:11:23 GMT
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>> I do not have an extended/International keyboard.  How do I enter or
>> indicate the accented vowels in the text strings?

> The specification for XLookupString() provides a hook for creating
> special characters from multiple keystrokes.  The MIT sample
> implementation of XLookupString() does not do this, but several other
> implementations do allow you to create "compose" characters.  DEC's
> Xlib does this and I've been told (but I have not checked) that Sun's
> does, also.  Check with your Xlib vendor.

There is also compose-character code patterned after the VT-330 (so I'm
told) for ISO Latin-1 (8859-1).  I did not write this; it was written
by Justin Bur, now <justin@lspsun1.epfl.ch>.  The code itself is
available for anonymous ftp from 132.206.1.1 in X/justin-compose.
(X/justin-compose.Sun-extra is further patches primarily for use with
European Sun keyboards using the OpenWindows server.)

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