Compose sequence standard

[Alexandre Owen Muniz]

John Meacham wrote:
> There is a standard, rfc1345, it is supported in several apps including
> editors such as 'vim'. it would be nice if some terminal programs
> supported them directly though... Although perhaps an X Input Method is
> the way to do this.
> 
> see 
> http://kaizi.viagenie.qc.ca/ietf/rfc/rfc1345.txt

Interesting. However, this rfc doesn't attempt backward compatability with what most 
people are currently using. For example, it has 'n' + '?' → ñ. In general, the mnemonics 
are terribly non-intuitive, especially for people who are used to the standard latin-1 
compose sequences in X, which is probably the majority of people who use compose 
sequences. The design priciple for this rfc seems to be, "coverage of as much of unicode 
as possible comes first, and usability is not important". OTOH, there are some interesting 
ideas for sequences, especially in the math operator section, that would be reasonable to add.

**Ali