On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 20:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
* Accented characters (common for millions of Europeans) don't work right away after the initial installation. You need to know what to do to get that working. I've not succeded in getting the euro sign to work, last tried it about 2 years ago.
Hmm. On a default SUSE 9.2, on a euro-equipped UK keyboard, using en_GB.utf8 as the locale, it's just AltGr, then 4. You will of course need to use a font that has the symbol to begin with :-) If you have time to spare one day, install a Unicode font. The GNU Unicode font is not so good-looking, so use one like the beautiful Gentium from SIL (note - this font is not free, though it is cost-free) at http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font. Then try the following key-combinations: AltGr then letter AltrGr+. then letter AltrGr+; then letter AltrGr+' then letter AltrGr+/ then letter AltrGr+# then letter AltrGr+[ then letter AltrGr+] then letter Shift+AltGr+letter Shift+AltGr then c and then letter Shift+AltGr then , and then letter Shift+AltGr then . and then letter Shift+AltGr then ; and thenletter (the last four are a little tricky - you need to press the c/./,/; and the letter fairly quickly in succession, or it won't work) There is actually a file which I found once that sets all these out, and which you could edit to your heart's content, but unfortunately I've forgotten where in the SUSE filesystem it is! (If anyone knows, please refresh my memory.) I don't know whether Microsoft Windows offers the same versatility, but I think you'll agree after doing this that quite a few languages are catered for on an ordinary keyboard, without even starting to select fonts, change keyboards in KDE, or setting locales (all of which, of course, can be applied on a per-programme or per-user basis, which Microsoft Windows definitely cannot do). For multilingual work (especially on little-known languages) this is a godsend, since you have access to a huge number of Roman characters with diacritics straight off your default system. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD!