Talk:Dead key

message: The bottom section regarding unicode is not written in the correct format, styling, and should be re-worked. I fixed up the more obvious spelling mistakes, but it is written very informally
Rqwan (talk) 10:20, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode section needs to be re-formatted 

message: This link should be replaced by a page that is accessible to more people...
  http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP051865621033
--Nil0lab 22:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad link 

message: I reverted this edit :
Dead keys, made popular by the Sun Compose key, are an intuitive way to type letters, diacritics, and other symbols not normally on a given keyboard or keyboard layout. Use of a dead mimics type accents on a mechanical typewriter -- by typing one letter, backspacing, and then typing an accent in the same spot.
Some examples:
 Compose + e + ' yields: é
 Compose + D + - yields: Ð
 Compose + L + ­- yields: £
This is a different method for inputting accented characters which works quite opposite to dead keys. --Pjacobi 10:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: ACK Compose and Dead Key are different methods of input and thus deserve distinct articles.--Hhielscher 11:50, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compose vs Dead Keys 

message: This article should avoid talking too much about combining characters, which are a way of constructing complex glyphs from multiple characters.  Dead keys, on the other hand, are just one technique of accessing such complex glyphs.  A-giau 03:48, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to [[combining character]] 

message: "In many text processing programs, dead keys are typed using the Ctrl key with the punctuation mark that looks most like the accent. In the X Window System, the AltGr key has this function."
AFAIK AltGr is Level-3-Shift under X. Can someone give an example what is meant with the above? Does it need a special keyboard/xkb layout?--Hhielscher 09:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AltGr using X-Windows 

message: The example given of the '~' over a 'p' does not show up on my computer, just shows as '~p'.  Using Firefox latest patch, WinXP Pro SP2 if that makes any difference.  Not that you'd ever need to combine thsoe 2 characters, just the article claims you can, and then proceeds to demonstrate, and it doesn't really work. Lurlock 23:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On mechanical typewriters, this actually works. The article says that nowadays. – gpvos (talk) 08:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example not working on my computer 

message: Should a chorded keystroke ever be considered a dead key, even when it does the same thing that a dedicated dead key would do?  This is in reference to the article's example of "option-`, e produces è on the Macintosh". — wfaulk 20:01, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac example 

message: Please discuss here: Talk:Compose key#Compose key/Dead key merge. – gpvos (talk) 10:48, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compose key/Dead key merge 

message: What is the origin of the name? --TiagoTiago (talk) 11:04, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: in the article, it says they are called dead keys because nothing immediately obvious happens when you hit them. or something along those lines. Snarevox (talk) 16:04, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are they called "dead keys"? 

message: Which Function of which Framework/Library/Language? Robotic-Brain (talk) 23:12, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  DEADTRANS Function 

message: I deleted this text from the lead because it is unintelligible and (contrary to WP:LEAD) did not summarise any body content:
It may well be true but it needs to be rewritten in English, needs more detailed explanation, and needs to be supported by citation. "Newly": when?; "replaced": by who?; "more efficient": says who?; "following the Unicode standard": Unicode says nothing about input methods, only that most compound characters are achieved by composition rather than pre-composition. If  starts a combining sequence, what about its normal use? Please try again, preferably by offering a draft here for comment before putting it in the article. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:14, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incoherent text 

message: In addition to pressing the space bar after pressing a dead key to print its value, I've always got the same result by just pressing a dead key twice. I don't know whether it prints dead key combinations too and cannot test it right now (no dead keys in my phone's keyboards).
Edited: wrong word "once" corrected to "twice" at the end of first sentence.Wafikiri (talk) 14:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another way to get a dead key value  printed