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On 05.04.2010 09:46, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
> On 5/04/2010 5:59 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>    
>> Rurik Christiansen wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input ?
>>>
>>>        
>> You can have actual Xcompose by running an X server and using xterm or
>> rxvt-unicode.
>>
>> For the console and mintty, you depend on Windows' native mechanisms,
>> in particular, "dead keys". Different keyboard layouts can be chosen
>>
>>      
> Ah ... that's not what I had in mind.
>
> What I wanted is a mechanism to use as in Xcompose, i.e.<meta>  + "
> diving diaeresis for the next letter,
> <meta>  + ^ giving circumflex accent, etc.
>
> I don't want to change the current keyboard layout.
>    
Do you need it throughout in the shell/terminal or would it be 
sufficient to have it in an editor?
You might give mined a try; it has built-in support for a variety of 
convenient input support methods,
for example you can type Control-comma c and will get a c with cedilla 
(works in xterm and mintty).

Thomas

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