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Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X

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On 2017-03-13 at 20:14, Clark Smith wrote:
> 	Are there any combinations of keystrokes that can be used, on a
> US keyboard, be it with us, us_intl, or whatever other setxkbmap setting,
> so that characters like the aforementioned inverted question mark
> character ¿, or any other non-ASCII characters from languages that use
> modified versions of the Roman alphabet, can be obtained, at any
> application (not only xterm) in X?

I use xmodmap/XCompose combo for this (see their man pages).

E.g. if my ~/.Xmodmap file contains this line:

keycode 105 = Control_R Multi_key Control_R Multi_key Control_R Multi_key

and ~/.XCompose contains this one:

<Multi_key> <question> <question> : "¿"

I can enter '¿' by pressing Shift-RightCtrl followed by '??'.

If it's not done by default in your distribution, you'd have to
run `xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap` during X session startup (placing
the command in ~/.xsession or ~/.xsessionrc should do the trick).

HTH.

-- 
mrg

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Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-13 19:14 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-03-13 13:40 -0700
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:17 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-03-13 20:04 -0700
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2017-03-14 06:26 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2017-03-14 18:12 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 19:10 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 20:14 +0000
        Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 20:31 +0100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2017-03-13 21:57 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:26 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 01:46 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:56 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-13 23:44 +0100
    Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2017-03-14 00:23 +0000
      Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2017-03-14 01:44 +0100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-14 00:27 +0000
  Re:Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X Doug  Laidlaw  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2017-03-14 23:28 +1100
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 13:55 +0000
  Re: Non-ASCII characters on a US keyboard under X David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-14 22:07 +0100

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