sandi@apollo.COM (Sandra Martin) (02/01/89)
After my mail earlier this week about Latin-2, several people asked
for a list of the DEC Latin-1 compose sequences. Here they are:
code compose Name
160 <sp><sp> No break space (NBSP)
161 !! Inverted exclamation mark
162 c/ Cent sign
163 L- Pound sign
164 XO Currency sign
165 Y- Yen sign
166 || Broken bar
167 SO Section sign
168 "" Diaeresis
169 co Copyright sign
170 a_ Feminine ordinal indicator
171 << Left angle quotation mark
172 -, NOT sign
173 -- Soft hyphen
174 RO Registered trade mark sign
175 -^ Macron
176 O^ Ring above, degree sign
177 +- Plus-minus sign
178 2^ Superscript two
179 3^ Superscript three
180 '' Acute accent
181 /u Micro sign
182 P! Paragraph sign, pilgrow sign
183 .^ Middle dot
184 ,, Cedilla
185 1^ Superscript one
186 o_ Masculine ordinal indicator
187 >> Right angle quotation mark
188 14 Vulgar fraction one quarter
189 12 Vulgar fraction one half
190 34 Vulgar fraction three quarters
191 ?? Inverted question mark
192 A` Capital letter A with grave accent
193 A' Capital letter A with acute accent
194 A^ Capital letter A with circumflex accent
195 A~ Capital letter A with tilde
196 A" Capital letter A with diaeresis
197 A* Capital letter A with a ring above
198 AE Capital diphthong AE
199 C, Capital letter C with cedilla
200 E` Capital letter E with grave accent
201 E' Capital letter E with acute accent
202 E^ Capital letter E with circumflex accent
203 E" Capital letter E with diaeresis
204 I` Capital letter I with grave accent
205 I' Capital letter I with acute accent
206 I^ Capital letter I with circumflex accent
207 I" Capital letter I with diaeresis
208 D- Capital icelandic letter ETH
209 N~ Capital letter N with tilde
210 O` Capitol letter O with grave accent
211 O' Capital letter O with acute accent
212 O^ Capital letter O with circumflex accent
213 O~ Capital letter O with tilde
214 O" Capital letter O with diaeresis
215 xx Multiplication sign
216 O/ Capital letter O with oblique stroke
217 U` Capital letter U wigh grave accent
218 U' Capital letter U with acute accent
219 U^ Capital letter U with circumflex
220 U" Capital letter U with diaeresis
221 Y' Capital letter Y with acute accent
222 TH Capital icelandic letter THORN
223 ss Small German letter sharp s
224 a` Small letter A with grave accent
225 a' Small letter A with acute accent
226 a^ Small letter A with circumflex accent
227 a~ Small letter A with tilde
228 a" Small letter A with diaeresis
229 a* Small letter A with a ring above
230 ae Small diphthong AE
231 c, Small letter C with cedilla
232 e` Small letter E with a grave accent
233 e' Small letter E with acute accent
234 e^ Small letter E with circumflex accent
235 e" Small letter E with diaeresis
236 i` Small letter I with grave accent
237 i' Small letter I with acute accent
238 i^ Small letter I with circumflex accent
239 i" Small letter I with diaeresis
240 d- Small icelandic letter ETH
241 n~ Small letter N with tilde
242 o` Small letter O with grave accent
243 o' Small letter O with acute accent
244 o^ Small letter O with circumflex accent
245 o~ Small letter O with tilde
246 o" Small letter O witth diaeresis
247 -: Division sign
248 o/ Small letter O with oblique stroke
249 u` Small letter U with grave accent
250 u' Small letter U with acute accent
251 u^ Small letter U with circumflex accent
252 u" Small letter U with diaeresis
253 y' Small letter Y with acute accent
254 th Small icelandic letter THORN
255 y" Small letter Y with diaeresis
The implementations generally work like this: there either is a predefined
or a user-defined <compose> key. You press that key, followed by the
two-character compose sequence listed to get your chosen character. Some
implementations only allow you to enter characters in the order shown, but
others accept them in the order shown or the reverse order. For example,
to compose an n with a tilde on our system, you can either enter
<compose>n~ or <compose>~n .
Obviously, compose sequences are cumbersome if you're doing all your
work in a language other than English. In that case, a local-language
keyboard is a better solution. But if you only need European characters
occasionally, or if you're stuck with an ASCII-only keyboard for some
reason, compose sequences are very useful.
Sandra Martin, Apollo Computer
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