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Re: BUMP: Icelandic character composition not working
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:59:36 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: BUMP: Icelandic character composition not working
- References: <40451421.7090202@JaySmith.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jay Smith wrote:
> In RedHat Linux running under xwindows provided by Cygwin/XFree86, I am
> able to type all the "foreign characters" I need to use, except for one
> Icelandic characters (I can type other Icelandic characters). Again, this
> is to type such characters in linux programs and documents running under X.
>
> My "guru" mapped the Right Alt key as the Multi_key and so with it I can
> make characters like þ and Þ and Ä, etc., by typing combinations of
> letters, etc.
>
> However, I have not been able to figure out how to make the "thorn" (eth)
> character which I think is 208 and 240 decimal. It is the character that
> looks like a d or D with a horizontal line through it.
>
> The docs say that I am supposed to be able to use:
>
> minus D or D minus
>
> minus d or d minus
>
> (minus = dash = - )
if "setxkbmap is" works, please send me /tmp/XWin.log
it gives me þ and Þ with the key left to the right-shift key and
ð and Ð with compose-minus-d
compose is shift alt-gr (right alt).
bye
ago
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