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- OK, intrepid developer-like objects, we admit it! We don't
- know where this sample came from and we don't know anything about
- its original intent. However, since we're super-geniuses, we were
- able to make up a plausible story.
-
- Say you're a terminal emulator. And you have to run on a Mac Plus.
- With us so far? Now, the Plus doesn't have a control key, but you'd
- really like to pretend it does. So you use the option key. Here's where
- the problem comes in.
-
- The default behavior of KeyTrans is to support umlauts and other
- fun letter modifiers by making option-U, for example, into a
- "dead" key which results in no keystrokes but modifies subsequent
- keystrokes. So when you type option-U followed by a u, you get: 'ü'.
- And there was much rejoicing, except in Terminal Emulator Land.
- There, the people were downtrodden, as they had no way to tell
- their UNIX command line to clear.
-
- So, you ask, why don't I just install my own keymap? Well, that'd
- be swell for all us qwerty people, but the people who type on those
- keyboards with all the keys rearranged would really hate it (Hi Quinn!)
- and they'd have to relearn the icky qwerty (try typing that 5 times
- fast) layout again after they'd gone to all the effort of rearranging
- their keycaps on the keyboard so they'd feel funny (they're not all
- the same shape, you know). So...
-
- This sample shows how to patch KeyTrans in order to completely
- ignore the dead-key processing that goes on and lets you type those
- fancy accented characters. You're back in 7-bit ASCII days now,
- bucko. Enjoy.
-