From: michael@tds.com (Michael Christiansen)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 13:56:51 -0700
To: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>
Subject: Special Characters
Cc: next-icon@gun.com

See the NEXTSTEP User's Guide in the Reference sections titled Special Characters and Symbol Font Characters, which are on pages 346 - 347 in the User's Guide for Release 3.0.

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From: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>
To: t0581dh@network.cfc.com (David Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Eggs-ploration
Cc: next-icon@gun.com

Ok, so by now everybody's looked at and found the "hidden" tiff in the posting by David Hamilton containing the mouse-egg (which came first, the mouse or the egg?  ¬)

To be more specific, it's the e-acute:     ¬

Now that's one way to get a wierd character, but why not use the mechanism NeXT provides us with to getting all those nice other characters.  I can type an e-acute: Ý, in uppercase: ‰, and all kinds of other characters.  

Now my turn for a question:   I've long since modified my keyboard map to make getting the extra German characters easier:  ö, Ù, ð, û.  But I seem to have forgotten how to make these characters on the fly.  I could have sworn that you were suppose to type something like "Esc, Alt-u (for umlaut), and the the character to add the umlaut to like "u".  To get the e-acute, I had to modify my keyboard map again (using Keyboard.app).

Does anyone remember how to compose characters on the fly?

Eric
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