Compose Key Sequences

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SPARC and x86 keyboards can produce all characters in the standard ISO 8859- 1 (Latin-1) code set by using the Compose key. On a SPARC keyboard, pressing the Compose key should illuminate the light on the key. On an x86 keyboard, the Compose key is Control-Shift-F1 (hold the Control and Shift keys down and press the F1 key).

Localized keyboards do not all generate the same key codes for ISO Latin-1 characters. However, system translation tables take care of producing the right character code. The SunOS system finds its tables in

/usr/share/lib/keytables.

Table B-1 shows how to produce special ISO Latin-1 characters using Compose key sequences.

Table B-1 (1 of 5)

Compose	Result	Description
space space		Space
! !	¡	Inverted exclamation
c /	¢	Cents
l -	£	Pounds sterling
o x	¤	Currency symbol
y -	¥	Yen
| |	||	Broken bar

Table B-1 (2 of 5)

Compose	Result	Description
s o	§	Section
" "	¨	Umlaut/diaeresis
c o	(C)	Copyright
- a	.	Feminine ordinal
< <	«	Left guillemet
- |	¬	Not sign
- -	-	Soft hyphen
r o	(R)	Registered
^ -	¯	Macron
^ 0	°	Degree
+ -	+-	Plus-minus
^ 2	$ sup 2$	Superscript 2
^ 3	$ sup 3$	Superscript 3
\ \	´	Prime/acute accent
/ u	mu	Mu/micro
P !	¶	Pilcro/paragraph
^ .	·	Middle dot
, ,	¸	Cedilla
^ 1	$ sup 1$	Superscript 1
_ o	.	Masculine ordinal
> >	»	Right guillemet
1 4	1/4	Quarter
1 2	1/2	Half
3 4	3/4	Three quarters
? ?	¿	Inverted question
A '	À	A grave
A '	Á	A acute

Table B-1 (3 of 5)

Compose	Result	Description
A ^	Â	A circumflex
A ~	Ã	A tilde
A "	Ä	A umlaut
A *	Å	A angstrom
A E	Æ	AE ligature
C ,	Ç	C cedilla
E '	È	E grave
E '	É	E acute
E ^	Ê	E circumflex
E "	Ë	E umlaut
I '	Ì	I grave
I '	Í	I acute
I ^	Î	I circumflex
I "	Ï	I umlaut
D -	D-	Eth
N ~	Ñ	N tilde
O '	Ò	O grave
O '	Ó	O acute
O ^	Ô	O circumflex
O ~	Õ	O tilde
O "	Ö	O umlaut
x x	x	Multiply
O /	Ø	O slash
U '	Ù	U grave
U '	Ú	U acute
U ^	Û	U circumflex
U "	Ü	U umlaut

Table B-1 (4 of 5)

Compose	Result	Description
Y '	Y'	Y acute
T H	Th	Thorn
s s	ß	Eszett/digraph s
a '	à	a grave
a '	á	a acute
a ^	â	a circumflex
a ~	ã	a tilde
a "	ä	a umlaut
a *	å	a angstrom
a e	æ	ae ligature
c ,	ç	c cedilla
e '	è	e grave
e '	é	e acute
e ^	ê	e circumflex
e "	ë	e umlaut
i '	ì	i grave
i '	í	i acute
i ^	î	i circumflex
i "	ï	i umlaut
d -	d-	eth
n ~	ñ	n tilde
o '	ò	o grave
o '	ó	o acute
o ^	ô	o circumflex
o ~	õ	o tilde
o "	ö	o umlaut
- :	-:	Divide

Table B-1 (5 of 5)

Compose	Result	Description
o /	ø	o slash
u '	ù	u grave
u '	ú	u acute
u ^	û	u circumflex
u "	ü	u umlaut
y '	y'	y acute
t h	th	thorn
y "	y	y umlaut

The previous table of Compose key sequences is for ISO 8859-1 only. The ISO 8859 code sets are listed below.

Table B-2

Code Set	Name	Coverage	Approved
8859-1	Latin-1	Western Europe	15 February 1987
8859-2	Latin-2	Eastern Europe	15 February 1987
8859-3	Latin-3	Maltese, Catalan, Galician, Esperanto	15 April 1988
8859-4	Latin-4	Baltic and Nordic region	15 April 1988
8859-5	Cyrillic	Slavic countries	1 December 1988
8859-6	Arabic	Arab countries	15 August 1987
8859-7	Greek	Greece	15 November 1987
8859-8	Hebrew	Israel	1 June 1988
8859-9	Latin-5	8859-1 minus Iceland plus Turkey	15 May 1989