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On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:33:52 +0000 (UTC), alister
<alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> declaimed the following:

>English keyboards (US & UK) don't have a compose key because wee do not 
>normaly use accented characters (except when dealing with people that do 
>& then being lazy we often cheat & don't bother with them. Apologies to 
>all who do use them this is very poor behaviour)
>
	Or have to drag out Windows character map utility to find a special
code to enter the character (and hope one has picked an encoding that is
compatible with the target <G>).

	Even though I seldom used it, I miss my Amiga -- when had a rather
clean "dead key" implementation... I forget the icons on the keys but it
would have been the equivalent of:

<alt-j><vowel> would add a ' accent, <alt-k><vowel> would add ` accent,
etc. There were five or six <alt-> keys, and <vowel> may not have been just
a vowel... the combo that would put an ~ over lowercase n, for example.
-- 
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