On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: >> > I noticed that the terminal program I've used for years (aterm) >> > recently stopped working with the "compose" key (for generating >> > accented or "foreign" characters, for example). >> > >> > The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt, >> > xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based apps. But, it doesn't >> > work in aterm or urxvt. >> > >> > I'm particularly surprised that it works in rxvt (which has >> > been abandoned for years), but not in in rxvt-unicode (built >> > with iso14755 and unicode3 options enabled) which is actively >> > developed and intended to support internationalization. >> > >> > Does anybody else have problems with the compose key and aterm >> > or urxvt? >> >> I've never owned a keyboard with a "Compose" key, actually I had never >> even heard of it. Wikipedia has some info about how you might go about >> setting it up. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key >> >> Thanks, >> Paul > > of course you have. On your keyboard it is labeled as 'alt gr'
I don't have AltGr on any keyboard I've ever seen, other than in pictures. US English keyboards don't have any of this "foreign" language support. :) We just have two Alt keys, which both behave identically (they do have different scancodes, though). Here's what it looks like: http://www.cooltoyzph.com/image/US_Keyboard_layout.jpg There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt behave like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English (mostly Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International keyboards actually exists or if it's just a virtual layout. However, even then, it does not behave like the "Compose" key as described by the Wikipedia article, which makes it sound like a dead key. It's just a modifier, like Shift. It doesn't indicate any combining of following keystrokes. Maybe it does act like that for other layouts. It's all news to me, as I've never used any non-US keyboard. :) Thanks, Paul
