From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 22:15:31 +0000

Re: Dead keys

Dirk Lattermann wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:48:19PM +0000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > How do we want to support dead keys?
> >
> Well, every time the subject comes to dead keys, I'm reminded
> of the way my old Amiga did it (in the Kickstart 1.2/1.3 days):
> 
> The grave and acute key worked like on a typewriter:
> if you typed acute and grave (any order) and then, e.g., 'e',
> you got an 'e' with a circumflex accent.
> 
> I always liked this very much, so I'm wondering if it can be done
> somehow with the 'serial scheme' GII is using for keypresses.

Sure, shouldn't be to hard to write a filter which can do that.

But I don't see the problem with having a real dead circumflex
instead...

//Marcus
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