Moved from elsewhere.
How does that (compose key) work?
I have a Linux Mint 18 in a VM with Dutch locale.
I "compose" my diacritics via "dead keys": I press " and then A and I get Ä for example.
IIRC then this works OK in GTK2.
I have a standard US-intl keyboard (laptop though).
Any idea which key I should use to compose a key in the way you do it?
Bart
Bart, Its not something I use frequently, more for scientific characters that accented ones. But one of my end users opened the bug report and I felt obliged to follow up. I usually use the "hold down shift-ctrl and type 'u' then hex code." model (ie micro is µ uB5, degree is uB0, delta is Δ u394, . But apparently thats regarded as less desirable these days.
The compose key model is reported to be easier to remember (I don't find it so) and faster for hi speed typists (not me).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComposeKey describes how to config the keys, by default on my U18.04 there was no compose key. It was a case of Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Options and setting the preferred key stroke to trigger it. Apparently the LeftShift - LeftWin combination is the most popular. You press that combination and release it. Then, for example for ü, (part of my wife's name), you press 'u', release and ", release.
the Å is the result of Compose Key 'A' and then '*'.
Other modifiers include ~, ", ^ and so on.
The strange thing with LCL's GTK2 is that model works fine in, for example, a TEdit but fails in a TMemo ?? Å
Davo
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