A dead key is a special kind of a modifier key on a computer keyboard that is used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter. For instance, shift + " + A gives A with dots.
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Different UTF-8 signature for same diacritics (umlauts) - 2 binary ways to write umlauts
I have a quite big problem, where I can't find any help around in the web:
I moved a page from a website from OSX to Linux (both systems are running in de_DE.UTF-8) and run in an quite unknown problem:
Some of the files were not found anymore, but…
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When mapping a keyboard... What are "dead keys", "terminators", and "states"?
After reading the Ukelele keyboard manual (http://iran.clubmgenretraites.paris/Logiciels/Emul/8-16Bits/ZX&Cie/Mac/Spectrum&Cie/Ukulele/Ukelele%20Manual%202.2.pdf) & reading through many Github & StackOverflow posts on the topic, I still don't…
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Tkinter Text widget sometime doesn't register dead-keys (^ ` ")
I'm making a python program with a gui using Tkinter and its Text widget. I'm using python 2.7.3 and Ubuntu 14.04.
I'm using a "Canadian multilingual" keyboard layout as seen here: http://charsetplus.tripod.com/Keyboard/Latin/ENFR-CAN.htm
When I…
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How to show keystrokes of dead keys in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio I want to use a character which is composed of a dead key plus another key.
I type this : ` + e -> è
VS takes it as : 96 + 101 -> 232 ( and only shows 232)
or in HEx : 0060 + 0065 -> 00e8 ( and only shows…
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AutoHotKey dead key remap stopped working
I'm not an expert in AHK but not long ago I made a very simple code to change the behaviour of the apostrophe dead key. What I wanted was to have the key to print the apostrophe directly if pressed alone and to have its normal dead key function if…
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Why are dead keys not working with some letters in AutoHotkey?
In an AutoHotkey script, why do dead keys not work with some letters?
As an example, when running AutoHotkey with the following script:
#InstallKeybdHook
EndKeys =…
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Javascript keyboard handler for accentuated characters
I'm implementing a keyboard handler that writes a text node, and i'm having difficulties understanding how to handle the case of special characters like accentuated ones such as å or á or even è, usually what i would use depending on the browser…
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Dead keys Microsoft typescript
I made a virtual keyboard in typescript that prints the event.key in the inputfield. It has to be compatible with different input method languages, like Dutch and French. These keyboards have Dead keys, for example the `.
Now this works fine for…
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