Touch dead
A touches dead is a key of a Clavier of computer which does not produce any result when it is inserted but modifies the behavior of the next key which will be inserted. There exist many combinations of dead keys and according to the provisions of the keyboards and the adjustments, the behavior of the known keys as having died is somewhat different.
It is very often about accents which one can place on different Voyelle S. For example on the keyboards AZERTY, the key “^” is a dead key which makes it possible to add a Circumflex accent on the vowels: â, E, I, O, U and ŷ (including for the capital vowels: Â, E, I, O, U and Ŷ). Certain combinations are on the other hand more exotic, like that of the “^” dead which, accompanied by the character of the Barre obliques “/”, produces the character of the vertical Barre “ | ”.
As opposed to what one could believe, the behavior of the keys dead is not defined by the provision of the keyboard, but by the local of the system. What poses certain problems of portability.
There exists of many combination of dead keys. The list can be extracted in details from the files from configurations from X.Org in the repertory /usr/share/X11/locale .
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