In a message dated 07-01-15, mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mark,

 HG> It's not as easy as finding them on the keyboard just a keypress away.

ml> kinda true... apparently many over in europe use them on a normal
ml> basis... i don't recall if i specificed the method previously or not

No you did'nt so I wondered what the "compose" key was.

ml> "compose" key is generally marked as ALTgr... so they hold ALTgr and
ml> then the first part of the sequence is hit... still holding ALTgr,

Ah yes, we have the right Alt key marked Alt Gr and to make the micro
sign I press Alt Gr+230 on the numerical keyboard. I have a shorthand
above the keyboard that specifies the character codes for characters
that are not available on the keyboard directly.

ml> numberpad... from what i can find, the "compose" method is more
ml> limited and restricted to alphabetical characters... you also have
ml> to hit the characters in the proper order...

And it doesn't work as such with other keyboard drivers.

ml> example:
ml>   ALTgr+"+o works for o umlate ”
ml>   ALTgr+o+" does not work

I tried that different ways, it didn't work with the keyboard driver I
use for the scandinavian keyboard,

ml> same for those letters with ^ ~ and ' above them...

but those characters are in the CP437 table and by using the character
codes they are avaiable with the Alt Gr method.

 HG> Those characters are also used in my BBS. All of them are not
 HG> available on CP850 but CP437 has a full set of them.

ml> yeah, that's what i was trying to say... not having those character
ml> glyphs available make things really ugly... especially mail stats
ml> messages that may have bar graphs in them...

I give my users the choice of Graphical or standard screen and
consequently I have made two versions of each menu.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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