Hello everyone,

It has also bugged me that dead keys didn't
work
for me in Drawterm under Linux.
Especially "^" and "`" is dead
characters
in the Swedish/Finnish layout. Of course it
is not so hard to
modify the keyboard layout
(in Linux) to make them non-dead,
especially
as I so far mainly used them alone in Plan 9
(e.g. ` and ^
and not so much à and ô). That
said, I prefer to use a single
non-redundant
layout per keyboard, and being able to type
in various
languages witout switching layouts.

On a related topic: Most of the
time I drawterm
from Linux to my 9front cpu-server, but I have
started
using a rasberry pi terminal instead
running Millers image. Doing so, I
realised
that my Keyboard did not generate any key-
code for "extra" key
on my European ISO 105-key
keyboard, when connected to usb on the
rpi
using a PS/2 to USB-adapter. I had only used
it with PS/2 in Plan 9
on PC-hardware before,
and I soon found out that the 105th key
works
well with both PS/2 and USB under 9front, but
only with PS/2 in
the Bells-version (Thank you
9fronters for that!) So I assume that
switching
to 9front on my rpi would solve that issue :-)

Wishing you
good Saturday,

Jonas Amoson

Ps. This is my first post to this very
list, but
I have been around using Plan 9 for some time. 

2017-03-15
00:57 skrev Julius Schmidt: 

> Dead keys didn't work as intended, a
recent commit adds support for grave, 
> acute, circumflex and tilde;
but they don't function as dead keys.
> To get proper dead key support
we would need XIM support, which doesn't 
> seem terribly difficult to
do with Xlib, but I'm not sure it's worth 
> adding since I don't know
anyone that would use XIM with drawterm.
> 
> So if anyone is interested
in having deadkeys or other X input chicanery 
> (like the crazy CJK
input mechanisms) working in drawterm, please speak 
> up.
> 
> Related.
There are like 8 more dead accents that I was too lazy to look 
> the
unicode equivalents up.
> They're documented in
https://www.x.org/docs/XKB/XKBproto.pdf [1] Appendix 
> C.1.5 on page
C-3 (page 119 in the pdf).
> 
> The full list is:
> 
> 254 80 DEAD GRAVE
ACCENT
> 254 81 DEAD ACUTE ACCENT
> 254 82 DEAD CIRCUMFLEX
> 254 83 DEAD
TILDE
> 254 84 DEAD MACRON
> 254 85 DEAD BREVE
> 254 86 DEAD DOT ABOVE
>
254 87 DEAD DIAERESIS
> 254 88 DEAD RING ABOVE
> 254 89 DEAD DOUBLE
ACUTE ACCENT
> 254 90 DEAD CARON
> 254 91 DEAD CEDILLA
> 254 92 DEAD
OGONEK
> 254 93 DEAD IOTA
> 254 94 DEAD VOICED SOUND
> 254 95 DEAD SEMI
VOICED SOUND
> 254 96 DEAD DOT BELOW
> 
> If anyone wants to complete
the translation table in drawterm, please go 
> ahead.




Links:
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[1] https://www.x.org/docs/XKB/XKBproto.pdf