<div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Stewart Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Pretty sure the VTs had a Gold key. Last used one in my first job, circa 1993, to talk to our analysis Vax. The Sun 3s I used through university, and the Sun Sparcs I used at Collins Dictionaries, all had a compose key to the right of the space bar.</p>
</blockquote><div>What I was thinking of was the VT420, which had a Compose key beside the space bar:<br><br><a href="http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt420-uu/chapter4.html">http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt420-uu/chapter4.html</a><br>
<br></div><div>Back in the day, it was enough trouble to get applications to recognize, capture, and pass on special characters that it tended to be a more attractive idea to use TeX encoding for special characters, and let TeX handle the "transport" of such.<br>
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