This was an experiment to try to type the special character ê without changing keyboard codes.
The initial hypothesis was that characters were handled "at Phorum level". That was wrong. Next, it was that Firefox had its own character handling. That's not completely wrong, but it's still significantly Wrong.
Finally it clicked. Special characters are handled by the OS, or pretty close to it. In Linux the separate X-Window-System is "next door to the OS", and it handles the ultimates of anything to be displayed in GUI form. In Windows the GUI is built right into the OS.
Anyway; so to do special characters "on the fly" in Linux, you use the commandline program xmodmap as follows:
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Multi_key" (if you want your right Alt key to be your multi key). During any active session this will transform the right alt key into a multi key. Upon shutdown, the program will naturally also terminate, and will only run again if you run it by hand all over again, or have it in your startup scripts.
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