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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  National characters keyboard X11
Message-ID: <9104011949.AA05077@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:49:21 GMT
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> I have problems concerning national letters and X-environment.  I use
> ISO-8859 font and it displays as it should on output from programs
> (also executed from within xterm).

> Problem 2:	Remapping the keyboard with xmodmap I would like to use
> 		two modifier keys ex. Compose Shift key, and should
> 		then need four keysym per key.  I need this to use
> 		national keyboard Europe.  But I can only get two
> 		keysym assigned to a key, ie. unshifted and shifted.

That's what the Mode_switch keysym is for.  Put the Mode_switch keysym
on some key, then tie that key to an unused modifier bit.  Then, when
that key is down, the third and fourth columns will be used instead of
the second and third columns for a given key.

(Yes, this should be more extensible....)

					der Mouse

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