Re: 2.0.1 alpha 73

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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:57

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Daan wrote:
> Josef Drexler wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:19:38 +0100, Marcin Grzegorczyk wrote:
>>
>  > It think it may be easier to implement that at the text input level.
> 
>> That's really the only place it matters.  I'm not sure how to design it
>> though.  In Linux I create my non-standard characters with the "combine"
>> key, e.g. the sequence <combine " a> becomes ä.  Something like that
>> would be workable, but won't support all needed characters.
>>
> 
> Ehh? this works already like that in the windows version on winxp? If I 
> type "+A I get ä in ttdpatch. Or do you want to make it work like that 
> for the dos version of the patch?

That's because you're using the dutch keyboard setting which has " as a dead 
key.  The "compose" key is more general though, for example <compose , c> 
gives me ç, <compose = C> gives me €, <compose 1 2> is ½, and <compose a e> 
is æ, and thousands more variations like that.

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