Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:00:41AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:17:55AM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:
> >> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to find and use the compose
> >> key? 
> >
> >WTF is a compose key?  Some shortcut to open your favorite editor???
> >Check your window manager keybindings.
> 
> It's probably something to do with emacs. I noticed the original posters
> X-Mailer was set to one of the emacs muas. Perhaps you need a special
> GNUEmacs keyboard ;-)

Nope, it's one common approach to entering international characters
not on your particular keyboard.  Which is why so few Americans even
know it exists.
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