Spanish Input Methods (fwd)

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From: Carlton Schuyler
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 00:06

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The IBM-compatible machine keyboards I used in Costa Rica have a separate
key for the n-tilde ('enye'), which is approximately where the ';' key
is on our Sun5 keyboard (and many other keyboards in the US and other
places).  The acute accent or diaresis (umlaut-looking thing) over
vowels was achieved by a two-key sequence:  First the accent, then the
vowel.  If an incompatible character was typed after the accent-key,
then nothing was returned by the keyboard, and a beep was generated.
The keyboard had more characters/functions than would fit
two-to-a-key, so the Alt key was used to get to a third character on
some keys.

Now, when the two-store sequences are legal, a single-byte character
is produced (the accented characters are not REALLY compositional).  I
assume the same is true in other languages.

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From: schuyler@sun.aitc.rest.tasc.com (Carlton Schuyler)
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Subject: Spanish Input Methods (fwd)
Date: 26 Feb 1994 01:06:58 +0100
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