On Monday 11 October 2004 20:49, Cris Perdue wrote:
Hi,
Hopefully an easy question: can someone recommend good ways to enter eastern European (or other non-U.S. characters) through a U.S.-style keyboard? Hopefully the same technique will work for any European language. (I'm not planning to enter any asian language input.)
Well, I've got here an updated SuSE 9.1 FTP running with the latest KDE 3.3.0. There are two things you can do: 1) Use a special key combination, then enter a letter-combo: Press <R-Shift>-<R-Ctrl>, then enter e.g. <A> <">, you'll see a 'Ä' To see what letter-combo's are available, see: /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include/ What files actually work is defined in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, variable 'COMPOSETABLE'. I have there: COMPOSETABLE="clear winkeys shiftctrl latin1.add" These are files in the directory /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include/ compose.clear compose.winkeys compose.shiftctrl compose.latin1.add Ok, the file compose.clear is nowhere to be found, but the other 3 files are there. ;) 2) To use the so-called 'dead-keys' <'>, <">, <^>, and <~>: Open the Control Center, goto Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout a) [x] Enable keyboard layouts In the 'Available layouts' listview, select 'U.S. English w/ deadkeys' and click [Add]. Click [Apply] The flag of the U.S.A. appears in the System Tray. (I have this too, but it's long ago since I enabled this) b) In the System Tray, click on the flag, it should be Dark purple with the letters 'US'. Hovering with the mouse above the flag should popup a hint-window saying 'U.S. English w/ deadkeys'. Now try to make an Ä: Type <">-<A> (double quote followed by an A) That allows these letters: ÁÀÂÄÃ ÉÈÊË ÍÌÏÎ Ñ ÓÒÔÖÕ ÚÙÛÜ Ý áàâäã éèêë íìîï ñ óòôöõ úùûü ý Of course the font you are using must contain the desired character! GNU-unifont has most characters. I use Bitstream Vera, and it has all the 48 characters I mentioned in point 2b). Cheers, Leen