diacritical marks - what is the keyboard shortcut?

[stokrota]

Sorry if this question is too trifling, but... what is the keyboard
shortcut to get national characters (diacritical marks) under Solaris?

The Windows scheme: ALT-<some_character> does not work.

The locale seems to be set correctly.

Thanks for any help.

Greetings,
Tomek.

[lafros]

See /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h [ref: look up 'special
characters' in OpenOffice help]

The above file contains the sequences of keys to press in order to get
the various characters, e.g. compose, *, a to produce å.

To make a particular key--here the one with keycode 113--behave as the
compose key:

$ xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Multi_key"

Put this in your ~/.dtprofile.

To get the keycodes, run /usr/openwin/demo/xev!

[David J. Dachtera]

Is there a "default" compose key? (Think: PC keyboard, 101-key or
later).

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[Andrew Gabriel]

In article <4437F5DB...@neoasrptahmlnionwk.net>,

"David J. Dachtera" <djesys...@NeOaSrPtAhMlNiOnWk.net> writes:
> lafros wrote:
>>
>> See /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h [ref: look up 'special
>> characters' in OpenOffice help]
>>
>> The above file contains the sequences of keys to press in order to get
>> the various characters, e.g. compose, *, a to produce å.
>>
>> To make a particular key--here the one with keycode 113--behave as the
>> compose key:
>>
>> $ xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Multi_key"
>>
>> Put this in your ~/.dtprofile.
>>
>> To get the keycodes, run /usr/openwin/demo/xev!
>
> Is there a "default" compose key? (Think: PC keyboard, 101-key or
> later).

Yes, Alt and Alt-Gr (either side of space bar on UK keyboard)
pressed together.

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