Typing vowels with macrons

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kent Frazier wrote:

> > The file you should be looking at is
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (you should also switch to
> > a UTF-8 locale, otherwise the macrons won't be in your character set,
> > and the UTF-8 compose map will not be used)
> 
> I actually happened across that file somehow as well.  I am running
> Hoary and using a UTF-8 locale, so that is not an issue.  The file had
> a listing for the various macrons, but the options it listed were:
> 
> <dead_macron> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> <Multi_key> <macron> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> <Multi_key> <underscore> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> 
> I do not have a dead_macron key or a macron key on my (standard U.S.
> 104-key) keyboard as far as I know.  When I use <Multi_key>
> <underscore> <A>, I get ª instead of Ā.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?

Yes :)
You're still using iso-8859-1. If you switch to UTF-8 completely (), your
compose-settings will change to the UTF-8 one instead of the iso-8859-1
one (also in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/).

The <Multi_key> is the Compose key. There's an explanation of how to
switch to UTF-8 on the wiki.

Martijn
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