Re: [MiNT] No dead keys with trunk

["Jean-François Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

On Monday 20 Dec 2010 20:24:12 Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 19:57 +0200, Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote:
> > > According to the doc dead keys should be enabled for all supported
> > > languages if the "keyboard.tbl" file is present in $SYSDIR. However,
> > > this never worked for me (French). Is there something else involved to
> > > have deadkeys working?
> > 
> > Same for me. But I think it must be an Eiffel-related problem, just as
> > for Alt/AltGr-Key.
> > The problem is I never really could understand the way it actually works.
> 
> 1. There are no deadkeys unless specified in keyboard.tbl.
> 2. The last table in keyboard.tbl defines the deadkeys. It's similar to
> the alt-tables, but each entry consists of three bytes instead of two:
> Deadkey character, e.g. ^
> The corresponding base character, e.g. a
> The resulting character, in this case it will be â
> A single zero/null terminates the table.
> 
> So when you press '^', nothing happens. If the following key is 'a', you
> will get a 'â'.

I'm sure Jean-Luc meant he does not understand the way it works *in MiNT*. 
What you're describing above is what us French speakers have experienced since 
we 1st started using computers.

The FreeMiNT documentation makes it sound as if French-speaking users will 
have dead keys working if the install the french.tbl table.

On the same topic, what is the difference between french.tbl and french-
pl.tbl?

Cheers,
JFL
-- 
Jean-François Lemaire