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From: kb@umnstat.UUCP (Christopher Bingham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Apparent bug in System 4.2 deadkeys
Keywords: Option {e,i,u,n} dead keys
Message-ID: <370@umnstat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 00:39:29 GMT
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Organization: Statistics, U. of Minn, Mpls, Mn
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Posted: Fri Feb 12 18:39:29 1988

I just noticed a problem I haven't seen mentioned before with System 4.2
(Finder 6.0, pretty vanilla DA's, no added inits, etc.).  With System 3.2
and earlier, if you repeated a dead key (say option n, option n) you got the
diacritical mark (in this case ~) by itself.  Thus (option i, option i) =
"^", (option u, option u) = umlaut, (option e, option e) = acute accent,
etc.  The next character typed was treated normally.  Thus (option n,option n,x)
gave ~x.  With System 4.2 this seqence gives ~~x, the second "~" appearing
when "x" is typed. The same thing happens with the other dead keys ( option
i, option i, x gives ^^x, etc.).

Since I make heavy use of the Princeton Math fonts which map all the
combinations to symbols, this is causing problems.  Does anyone know of a
fix or work around (other than the obvious one of typing, e.g., option e,
option e, backspace, x, which does give ~x)?

C. Bingham, Applied Statistics, U of Minnesota
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