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Handling of composition of characters
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Most of the fonts have much more characters than you can reach directly
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through the keyboard. To access all of them you may use showconsolefont,
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deduce the decimal code and enter it by holding down <alt> and entering
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the code via the keypad. There's a much better way, though:
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Most characters may be entered via composition. Many characters are just
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consisting of a standard character with some sort of accent or change.
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Such characters can be composed by composition. Just press the <compose>
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key, let it go again, enter the accent and then the letter.
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Some examples: (Assuming Iso-Latin-1/9 character set:)
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<compose> " a => ä
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<compose> , c => ç
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<compose> | S => $
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Support for composition is unfortunately not contained in most keymaps.
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Most lack two things:
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(a) The <compose> key is not mapped
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(b) The compose tables are not included
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Look at the compose.* files in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include/:
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(a) You find there two files for having the <compose> key mapped.
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(b) You find there compose tables which are suitable for different
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character sets.
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ad (a): winkeys: The compose key will be mapped on the W*n menu key
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shiftctrl: The compose key will be mapped to Shift Ctrl.
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You can use both, if you like.
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ad (b): latin, latinX, latin1.add, 8859_X: Contains the compose
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combinations suitable for the respective character set.
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Many people will want to use latin1 or latin1.add. Just
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using latin is also sort of an acceptable compromise for
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many Latin character sets.
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YOU MAY ONLY USE ONE OF THOSE.
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If you want the combination of more than one table, you
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have to create a file which includes what you want.
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Please keep in mind, that all these settings only affect the console,
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i.e. text mode.
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Your SuSE team
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