Markus Kuhn had written: > The key left of backspace used to be a non-spacing key on German > typewriters that allowed to put grave, acute, and circumflex (= grave > + acute) onto other letters for writing French. This accent key should > again always be configured as a non-spacing key, Am 2000-02-25 um 13:20 h MEZ hat Kevin Bracey geschrieben: > On what systems is it _not_ a non-spacing key? It is on ours, at least. On my PC (German Windows 95), this key has a hybrid status: - If you type an accent followed by a vowel, it will act as a non-spacing key; hence you can type "Andr´e" to get "André"; if you, however, follow the accent with any other character, it will act as a spacing key, producing a spacing accent; hence, you can easily type the deplored "it´s". In the latter case, some Windows (such as the DOS box) give an audible alarm, others (e. g. Notepad) silently display the spacing accent. In my xterm Window under the Iris 6.5 operating system (with a Latin-1 font assigned), this key acts as a spacing key. Same in the Zmail window I am writing this very note in. Needless to say that both devices have German keyboards attached to them (otherwise the key under discussion would not be there). Best wishes, Otto Stolz