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Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

Alexandros Diamantidis wrote:
* Jan Willem Stumpel [2006-01-16 21:52]: 

All characters, including things like ᾦ, can be made in Greek
mode, even in en_GB.UTF-8 locale, if the dead ogonek and horn in the
symbols/pc/gr file are replaced [..]


Right, that's one way to do it. Another way would be to create a custom
personal compose file, which includes both the US and GR Compose files.
That way, you can use the dead_horn and dead_ogonek keysyms used in the
existing greek keymap, with no need to add the combining Unicode
characters you mention.

I think if you put the following two lines in ~/.XCompose it will work:

include "/usr/lib/X11/locale/el_GR.UTF-8/Compose"
include "/usr/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose"


This does not work in my case. Also interchanging the entries (US first,
then GR) did not work. I mean you can get the accents, but not the
breathing signs. Strangely enough, even calling

LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 xterm

and then doing things in the new xterm, did not work! I don't understand
why. I have the el_GR.UTF-8 locale installed.

So it seems that when /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/gr is left as it is, users
must change their locale to Greek to use polytonic Greek (if they want to use the xkb facilities). But in the true UTF-8 spirit, we should be able to read/print/enter *anything* from *any* locale, as long as it is a UTF-8 one.

So perhaps /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/gr should really be changed to include the UTF-8 'breathing' signs. Then, I suppose, /usr/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose could be used for Greek, as it
is for so many other languages, including Russian, Hindi, Hebrew,
Japanese, and even French ;-). Of course there may very well be some
special reason for having a separate Greek UTF-8 Compose file which I do
not understand.

Regards, Jan



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