UPDATE# COMPOSE-KEY SEQUENCES FOR ENTERING SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Special characters (accented letters, etc) may be entered in the normal ways
described in "Using MS-DOS Kermit", second edition, Chapter 13, and now also
as compose-key sequences.  There are two new compose-key verbs:

  \Kcompose ; DEC Compose key
  \KdgSPCL  ; Data General SPCL ("special") key

In fact, these two verbs are identical.	 Neither one of them is assigned to
any key by default, so to use compose-key sequences, you must first make the
appropriate assigment, for example:

  SET KEY \2334 \KdgSPCL ; Make Alt-a the SPCL / Compose key

Now to enter a special character, press this key followed by two more keys.
For example, you can enter A-acute like this:

  Alt-a ' A

That is, press Alt-a (or whichever key or key combination you have assigned
\Kcompose or \KdgSPCL to), then acute accent (apostrophe), then capital A.
See below for a complete listing of compose-key combinations.  In general,
however, they are intuitive: letter + grave accent ("backquote"), letter +
acute accent (apostrophe), letter + doublequote (for umlaut or diaeresis),
letter + asterisk (ring above), etc.

When you press the compose key, the letter C appears at the right of the
terminal-emulation status line and remains there until you type the next two
keys.  If the two keys form a valid compose sequence, the corresponding
character is sent to the host.	If not, Kermit beeps.  In both cases, the C
disappears from the status line at the end of the compose sequence.  To cancel
a compose sequence in progress, just type one or two Ctrl-C characters (or, in
fact, any two characters that are not a legal compose sequence).

Compose sequences are available only for those 8-bit Latin1-class (i.e.
Western European) terminal character-sets that are valid for Kermit's current
terminal emulation:

Terminal Type:	 Character Sets:
 VT220 or 320	  LATIN1, DEC-MCS
 D463 or D470	  LATIN1, DG-INTERNATIONAL

Compose sequences are entirely independent of your PC's current code page.

Here is the complete table of MS-DOS Kermit's compose-key sequences:

Case and order insensitive:
  Input pair		DG Int	Latin1	Graphic			
  ++			23h	n/a	#			
  AA			40h	n/a	@			
  ((			5Bh	n/a	[			
  // or /<		5Ch	n/a	\			
  ))			5Dh	n/a	]			
  ^<space>		7Eh	n/a	^			
  (-			7Bh	n/a	{			
  /^			7Ch	n/a	|			
  )-			7Dh	n/a	}
  <<			B1h	ABh	<< (Left guillemot)
  0^ or *<space>	BCh	B0h	Degree, ring above
  +-			B6h	B1h	+-
  >>			B0h	BBh	>> (Right guillemot)
  SS			FCh	DFh	German double s (Ess-Zet)
  /U			A3h	B5h	Greek mu
  2^			A4h	B2h	2 superscript
  3^			A5h	B3h	3 superscript
  C/ or C|		A7h	A2h	Cent sign
  L- or L=		A8h	A3h	Pound Sterling
  Y- or Y=		B5h	A5h	Yen sign
  SO or S! or S0	BBh	A7h	Paragraph sign
  XO or X0		A6h	A5h	Currency sign
  A-			A9h	A4h	Feminine ordinal
  CO or C0		ADh	A9h	Copyright sign
  PP or P!		B2h	B6h	Pilcrow sign
  .^			B9h	B7h	Middle dot
  O-			AAh	BAh	Masculine ordinal
  12			A2h	BDh	Fraction one-half
  !!			ABh	A1h	Inverted exclamation
  ??			ACh	BFh	Inverted query mark
  T-			AFh	n/a	Not equals sign
  TM			B3h	AEh	Trademark sign
  FF			B4h	n/a	Florin sign (DGI only)
  <=			B7h	n/a	Less than or equals sign (DGI only)
  >=			B8h	n/a	Greater than or equals sign (DGI only)
  ,-			A1h	ACh	Not sign
  ""			BDh	A8h	Diaeresis
  ''			BEh	B4h	Accent acute
  RO			AEh	AEh	Registered sign
  ||			n/a	A6h	Vertical broken bar
  --			n/a	ADh	Soft hyphen
  -^			n/a	AFh	Macron
  ,,			n/a	B8h	Cedilla
  34			n/a	BEh	Fraction three-fourths
  XX			n/a	D7h	Multiplication sign
  -:			n/a	F7h	Division sign
  1^			n/a	B9h	Superscript 1
  14			n/a	BCh	Fraction one-fourth

Case and order sensitive:
  Input pair		DG Int	Latin1	Graphic			
  EO			D7h	n/a	OE digraph
  AE			C6h	C6h	AE digraph
  ae			E6h	E6h	ae digraph
  ,C			C7h	C7h	Cedilla
  ,c			E7h	E7h	cedilla
  /O			D6h	D8h	O oblique stroke
  /o			F6h	F8h	o oblique stroke
  HT			n/a	DEh	Icelandic Thorn (yes, HT, not TH)
  ht			n/a	FEh	Icelandic thorn (ht, not th)
  -D			n/a	D0h	Icelandic Eth
  -d			n/a	F0h	Icelandic eth

Case sensitive, order insensitive:
  Input pair		DG Int	Latin1	Graphic			
  'A			C0h	C1h	A-acute
  'a			E0h	E1h	a-acute
  `A			C1h	C0h	A-grave
  `a			E1h	E0h	a-grave
  ^A			C2h	C2h	A-circumflex
  ^a			E2h	E2h	a-circumflex
  "A			C3h	C4h	A-diaeresis
  "a			E3h	E4h	a-diaeresis
  ~A			C4h	C3h	A-tilde
  ~a			E4h	E3h	a-tilde
  *A			C5h	C5h	A-ring
  *a			E5h	E5h	a-ring
  'E			C8h	C9h	E-acute
  'e			E8h	E9h	e-acute
  `E			C9h	C8h	E-grave
  `e			E9h	E8h	e-grave
  ^E			CAh	CAh	E-circumflex
  ^e			EAh	EAh	e-circumflex
  "E			CBh	CBh	E-diaeresis
  "e			EBh	EBh	e-diaeresis
  'I			CCh	CDh	I-acute
  'i			ECh	EDh	i-acute
  `I			CDh	CCh	I-grave
  `i			EDh	ECh	i-grave
  ^I			CEh	CEh	I-circumflex
  ^i			EEh	EEh	i-circumflex
  "I			CFh	CFh	I-diaeresis
  "i			EFh	EFh	i-diaeresis
  ~N			D0h	D1h	N-tilde
  ~n			F0h	F1h	n-tilde
  'O			D1h	D3h	O-acute
  'o			F1h	F3h	o-acute
  `O			D2h	D2h	O-grave
  `o			F2h	F2h	o-grave
  ^O			D3h	D4h	O-circumflex
  ^o			F3h	F4h	o-circumflex
  "O			D4h	D6h	O-diaeresis
  "o			F4h	F6h	o-diaeresis
  ~O			D5h	D5h	O-tilde
  ~o			F5h	F5h	o-tilde
  'U			D8h	DAh	U-acute
  'u			F8h	FAh	u-acute
  `U			D9h	D9h	U-grave
  `u			F9h	F9h	u-grave
  ^U			DAh	D8h	U-circumflex
  ^u			FAh	F8h	u-circumflex
  "U			DBh	DCh	U-diaeresis
  "u			FBh	FCh	u-diaeresis
  "Y			DDh	n/a	Y-diaeresis
  "y			FDh	FFh	y-diaeresis
  'Y			n/a	DDh	Y-acute
  'y			n/a	FDh	y-acute
  

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