Re: diacritics synomyma

[Erika Pacholleck <pacholleck@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Assumption: 
> > A diacritic is the small part added to a letter to form a
> > digraph, like acute would be the diacritic for e with acute.
> 
> And it genreally doesn't change the width of the resulting di or trigraph.

I did not yet see this connection, something else learned on the fly ;)

> > Question:
> > Is there a difference between the diacritics which dumpkeys
> > shows as being synonyma? How do I have to understand synomym?
> 
> The reason linux loadkeys works like that is only for simplicity and due
> to technical constraints.


> In those old days, when dead_ogonek, dead_caron,
> dead_breve, dead_doubleacute was needed in some
> keymap, it was not available, and one of the above
> six had to be used instead.

Thank you, Pablo and Andries, now I understand.
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