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Re: Locale for typing ancient Greek

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:44:06PM -0200, Alex J. Dam wrote:

> Which locale should I use when typing ancient (polytonic) Greek texts?
> 
> I was trying to type them under the en_US.UTF-8 locale, but some dead keys, 
> like dead_ogonek, aren't working with Greek characters, because they're not 
> listed in the related Compose file.  Strange enough, some of the dead keys 
> are there: dead_grave and dead_iota (this one is specific to Greek).

Locales have nothing to do with keymaps, they're completely independent
issues. Take a look at the available keymaps, and if you don't like any of
them, you can easily create your own one.


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Egmont

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