Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Gary Thomas]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:29 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Then consider any user in non-latin1 locale. For example, my locale is 
>> Russian. I have no "é" on my keyboard...
>>
>> Well, I can use cut and paste, when I have a mouse and the text is 
>> already shown on my desktop.
>> But what I have to do, when use just the cmdline interface? IOW, without 
>> any GUI -- just the Linux console, or remote ssh session? How can I fill 
>> the "é" character then?
> 
> You use the compose key like most the world has been using for a long
> time.  
> 
> System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Layout -> Layout
> Options -> Compose Key Position.
> 
> Personally I have it mapped to capslock, so that I can do <capslock> e '
> which results in é
> 
> (setting aside the fact that compose key seems broken in rawhide...)

Support for the compose key seems pretty spotty.  Yes, it worked fine
in my [thunderbird] compose window [voilà], but not at all on the
command line (using VT) or even in [x]emacs.

Is this supposed to be a set-once, use-always solution?

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