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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Subject: Re:  Compose key in pure MIT
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Date: 12 Jun 91 06:25:21 GMT
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>> I made X from MIT with 18 fixes. But It seems that the compose key
>> patch is not there.  Where can I find it ?
> It's not from MIT, and not an official part of X11R4; somebody else
> did it.  I don't remember who it was,

It was Justin Bur.  He is currently justin@lspsun1.epfl.ch, but won't
be there much longer; I'm not sure what his email address will be after
he leaves.

> but der Mouse mentioned it in a posting a while ago; where can it be
> obtained (and did its creator submit it to MIT for inclusion in
> X11R5)?

It can be obtained from 132.206.1.1, in X/justin-compose.  I don't know
whether it was sent to MIT for R5; if they want a copy I'm sure Justin
wouldn't mind, since he did give it to me to be made available to the
world by FTP.

I would hope that the input handler stuff in R5 would render the old
sort of compose-character processing (and thus the patch[%]) obsolete,
but (not having seen the code) I don't know.  We'll have to wait and
see.

[%] Because the patch is a patch to Xlib to make XLookupString do
    something with that XComposeStatus structure.

					der Mouse

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