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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: How Can I Use Fonts' Diacriticals?
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Date: 29 Mar 89 12:43:33 GMT
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    I've looked at the man page for 'xmodmap' and typed 'xmodmap -pk'.
    The information I'm given is that only keycodes 8 through 129 are
    available to me, but the diacriticals are obviously not included in
    that range.

Keycodes are NOT the same as character codes.  Keys are labelled with
keysyms, and the keysyms are the basis of translation to characters.
The simplest way to get diacriticals is to relabel your some of your
keys (e.g. using xmodmap) so that diacritical keysyms are somewhere on the keyboard.