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1. How to Type European Accent Characters in X

Hello,

As the subject says, I'm trying to type European accent characters in
X (specifically, the Gnome environment) on a standard US keyboard from
the
ISO-8859-1/Latin 1 character set. From the Linux console I can do this
with

LEFT-ALT + character code

Is there a similar key sequence for X? Or some way to map Left ALT to
that function? I've read some scanty references to a "Compose" key
binding
which is suggestive of what I'm after but have found no hard
documentation.
I also tried putting this into my XF86Config file:

LeftAlt    Compose

to no effect.

Suggestions?

Thanks,

-sjs

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