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Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> Helmut Karlowski skreiv:
>
>> You would loose the non-base-character typed after the deadkey, e.g. ^1. I
>> get this on the PC by just typing ^ and 1.
>
> Yes, that's true, but...
>
>> (guessing...)
>>
>>   else if iswhite
>>     ascii = last_deadkey
>>   else
>>     ascii = "last_deadkey"+"ascii"     <-- two characters here.
>
> ...not loosing it complicates things a bit ;-)
>
> Jo Even
>
Linux uses space to keep the dead key real, ie :{space} give : but :o
gives the o with the 2 dots
same for ', ^ etc

I think some systems use 2 to give the same result ie ^^ get you ^ or
:: get give :


Paul
it might be " not :, but the functionality is the same