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> How can I get a compose key for entering international characters? 
> I can sort of see how to do it, but I wonder if anyone else has
> already gone to the trouble.  I think the answer is to set up a bunch
> of bindings, so that, for example, if I use F5 for 'compose,' then
> F5-a-^ would be bound to (insert �).

no need to do the compose key binding yourself in Epoch (as opposed to
lemacs that comes without knowledge of multi key sequences |:-{).  if
your terminal does not provide you with a compose key you can use
xmodmap(1) to have some other key behave as compose; e.g. what i do on
my ncd X terminal is the following (from my `.Xmodmap' file)

  keysym Control_R = Multi_key

thus mapping the key labelled `Alt Graph' on the right side of my
keyboard to `Multi_key'.  xev(1) is useful in determining the keysym of
keys you want to rebind with xmodmap(1).

after this (global) rebinding your X server and the Epoch 8 bit input
model will take care of the rest (and bash 1.13 and other 8 bit clean
programs will eventually benefit from it as well |:-).  make sure you
have fonts with iso 8859/1 encoding available.

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In gnu.epoch.misc Stephan Oepen <oe@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> 
> if your terminal does not provide you with a compose key you can use
> xmodmap(1) to have some other key behave as compose; e.g. what i do
> on my ncd X terminal is the following (from my `.Xmodmap' file)
> 
>   keysym Control_R = Multi_key
...
> after this (global) rebinding your X server and the Epoch 8 bit input
> model will take care of the rest (and bash 1.13 and other 8 bit clean
> programs will eventually benefit from it as well |:-).

Unfortunately, it's not a property of the X server, it's a property of the
version of libX11.a that you link with; so in your case, it depends on the
machine that application in question was compiled / is being run on, not 
the fact that you have an NCD server.

The OpenWindows Xlib, and those from DEC and HP (I think), and probably
others, understand the Multi_key, so all you need to do for them is add
that keysym to your keyboard, but the MIT R4 and R5 Xlibs do not.  (But
there's a patch for this on export.)

	-- Jamie