Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> ....
> The solution is the compose key, which in the
> Linux VTs (the ttys, or "the console") are setup like
> I show soon. But, you probably don't use the ttys, so
> I show this just to illustrate the principle. In X,
> you can do the same, of course, just not the same way.
>

setxkbmap can be used for that:

   setxkbmap -query

shows me

,----
| rules:      evdev
| model:      pc105+inet
| layout:     us,us,us,us
| variant:    ,colemak,dvorak,
| options:    ctrl:nocaps,compose:ralt
`----

I do the ctrl:nocaps thing and the variants, but everything else is
preset for me somehow. If you don't have a compose key, then
I presume

   setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

will make Right-Alt be the compose key. The key combinations are slightly
different from your settings below:

compose+a " -> ä
compose+a ' -> á
compose+a ` -> à
compose+a ^ -> â
compose+a * -> å
compose+a , -> ą
compose+o / -> ø
compose+l / -> ł
compose+? ? -> ¿
compose+! ! -> ¡

I'm not sure who does all this - all I'm sure about is that it's not me!

>
> compose '"'  'A' to U+00C4 # Ä
> compose '"'  'a' to U+00E4 # ä
> compose '"'  'O' to U+00D6 # Ö
> compose '"'  'o' to U+00F6 # ö
> compose '"'  'U' to U+00DC # Ü
> compose '"'  'u' to U+00FC # ü
> compose '/'  'A' to U+00C1 # Á
> compose '/'  'a' to U+00E1 # á
> compose '/'  'E' to U+00C9 # É
> compose '/'  'e' to U+00E9 # é
> compose '/'  'I' to U+00CD # Í
> compose '/'  'i' to U+00ED # í
> compose '/'  'O' to U+00D3 # Ó
> compose '/'  'o' to U+00F3 # ó
> compose '/'  'U' to U+00DA # Ú
> compose '/'  'u' to U+00FA # ú
> compose '0'  'A' to U+00C5 # Å
> compose '0'  'a' to U+00E5 # å
> compose '\\' 'A' to U+00C0 # À
> compose '\\' 'a' to U+00E0 # à
> compose 'o'  'A' to U+00C5 # Å
> compose 'o'  'a' to U+00E5 # å

--
Nick