[aklug] Re: Fwd: symbolics keyboard image link

On Friday, February 21, 2014, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> >
> >* One thing it doesn't seem to have is a "compose" character, which I've
> seen on the Sun keyboard (for composing to characters together, like
> diacritical marks). That's one that sounds pretty awesome. I'm surprised
> that it hasn't survived onto our modern, common-place keyboards.
>
>
> The Mac OS uses the option/alt key for just this purpose, among others.
Accents and diacritics as modifiers to plain keystrokes.
The ability to remap anything on Linux is handy. But I don't know of a
better way to do accented characters. Window still does it badly if you
aren't using foreign keyboard.

Jermudgeon

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Received on Fri Feb 21 12:18:03 2014