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From: hmm@heeg.de (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Subject: Re: Problem: VW20 and Compose Key on Solaris2.3
Message-ID: <D5svA9.83F@heeg.de>
Organization: Georg Heeg Objektorientierte Systeme, Dortmund, FRG
References: <3k66br$ldi@news.Austria.EU.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:01:19 GMT
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In article <3k66br$ldi@news.Austria.EU.net> Michael Ranner <mranner@focus.co.at> writes:
>Hello there!
>
>Does anybody know, why the Compose Key does not work under VW20.
>Under OW41 it was possible to emulate the Compose Key with Ctrl-A
>but under VW20 Ctrl-A starts the Finder.
>
>I need the Compose Key for (AOU-Umlaute), does anyone know a patch
>to fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>/\/\ike

Use Ctrl-Q.  ParcPlace, in their infinite wisdom regarding european users,
have decided that instead of a readily accessible #Compose key something else
should be used that's not so easy to hit :-(

Alternatively, you could hack the DispatchTable so that #Compose works.

Hans-Martin
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