Re: [vile] Question on input of UTF8 char's in programs.

[Paul Fox]

thanks for this question/answer.  since moving to utf8 everywhere for
output, i've started wondering how to do input as well.

brendan wrote:
 > something like "setxkbmap -option compose:ralt" (see
 > xkeyboard-config(7) for options).  Once the compose key is configured,
 > hit and release that key, followed by two ">" characters and you
 > should get the symbol you are after.  The actual sequences are defined
 > in the Compose file for your locale (grep for $LANG in
 > /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir).  Your character appears as:
 > 
 >   <Multi_key> <greater> <greater>   : "»"   guillemotright #
 > RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

how does one access the characters defined using the "dead_..."
strokes, like the greek letter pi (π)?  i entered it there using
^Vu03C0, but i should be able to do something more mnemonic, according
to this:
  <dead_greek> <p>            : "π"   U03C0    # GREEK SMALL LETTER PI

paul

 > 
 > Where Multi_key is the compose key you selected.
 > 
 > Using the second option, you can use ^Vxbb in insert mode.
 > 
 > --bod
 > 

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