or, for those using X11 under Linux/BSD/some other *nix, you can map a
key to be the "Multi_key" and then use that to create these combinations
(e.g. Multi_key+a+e results in æ).

more info on that here:
http://andrew.triumf.ca/iso8859-1-compose.html

nall.


Stephen Fryer wrote:

> sjuler wrote:
>
>>The "hooked o" is the Old Norse character which causes the meanest
>>pain in the butt for those who want to use the original spelling
>>system when posting Old Norse texts. A less mean character is the "oe
>>ligature". The characters "thorn" ,"eth", "ae ligature", "o slash"
>>and to some extent the diacritics (á, é,...; ö) cause some trouble as
>>well.
>>I see no point in using alternative spelling for "thorn" ,"eth", "ae
>>ligature", "o slash". But for "hooked o" and "oe ligature" one needs
>>to have an alternative. My proposition is:
>>
>>The Old Norse manuscripts' "hooked o" is denoted with 'õ' and
>>the Old Norse manuscripts' "oe ligature" is denoted 'ö'.
>
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is. Everything except the "hooked o" are easily
> available in the standard Windows TTF fonts, like Times New Roman, Arial, etc.
>
> ð (edh) alt+0240
> þ (thorn) alt+0254
> œ (o-e ligature) alt+0156
> æ (a-e ligature) alt+0230
> ø (o-slash) alt+0248
>
> And of course if you're using a wordprocessor, you can set whatever shortcut
> keys you like for these.
>