I'm trying to make a Cherokee keyboard for Ubuntu (Gutsy and/or Hardy) using xorg. The problem is that Cherokee has a syllabary with over 80 unicode symbols (la, le, li, lo, ma, me, etc). The most logical setup (which is already used on Windows and Mac Leopard) is to have g, d, t, w, y, m, n, z, h, and c as "dead keys" with the following vowel determine the correct Unicode symbol to insert, but every doc I read seems to indicate that there are only about 8 possible dead keys built into xkb,(such as 'dead_grave', 'dead_diaeresis' , etc), preprogrammed for making accents and umlauts and other diacriticals on Latin letters, not for composing non-European characters. Is it possible to re-define the consonant keys in xorg as dead keys as well? I'm not interested in using alt, ctrl, and other modifier keys, but want to be able to type "k" then "a" to get the Cherokee letter ka (§--U+13A7). I don't want to change the placement of punctuation, numbers, or symbols above the numbers, just the letter keys themselves. Any help greatly appreciated!!!
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