NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/windows/x/15697

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From: [e-mail] (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: need help accessing upper 128 font chars
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:36:51 GMT
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Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Danny Vanderryn) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gene De Lisa) writes:
|>
|>
|>
|>    I need to create text with accented characters.
|>    [...]
|>    The only way I can get them is by using openwindows and
|>    typing at the command line using the sun4 compose key
|>    sequences. this wont work in emacs or vi -- just the
|>    command line. Ive tried to compare the XKeysymDB but
|>    I cant find where openwindows puts it.
|>
|> openwindows has the patch in Xlib, where X doesn't.  you might try
|> running with your LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to your openwin libraries
|> first.  if that doesn't work, there may be something in R5 to do it.
|> i'm not quite familiar with R5 yet, but i know that R4 didn't have it.

     There is a patch on export which fixes the R5 server, check
for something like compose.tar.Z.

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Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
    SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, [phone]
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