On Tuesday 12 October 2004 20:19, Cris Perdue wrote:
Thanks everyone for your information and suggestions on entering eastern European characters. I looked at the facilities you all referred me to and followed the trail a bit further. The keymaps facility is pretty difficult to work with from my point of view, and kcharselect does not seem to exist as an executable program in my SUSE9.1 system, but I did find a pretty useable facility right in KDE. (Gee, should I be surprised?)
In the KDE Control Center, under "Regional & Accessibility", choose "Keyboard Layout". Check the box to "Enable keyboard layouts", then add one or more _additional_ layouts beyond your normal one. I chose "Bosnian", though Croatian or Serbian (Latin) would probably have been
Ok, so you told KDE that you have a Bosnian keyboard, while in reality you have a US keyboard?
as good. Click "Apply" and you are in business. In your "System Tray" (in the TaskBar, with your audio volume control, SuSE updates icon, etc. you get a flag icon. Click on that to cycle through keyboard layouts. A a little experimentation showed that most alphabetic keys are the same as U.S. English, but the extra characters appear to the right of the P key and the L key, like: š, Š, đ, Đ, č, Č, ć, Ć. The ž and Ž are on the U.S. backslash key. Hey hey!
I don't know if these characters will come through to you in this email, but it works very nicely for me locally.
It depends on the font you're using. I use GNU unifont Mono in the Message Body and the letters showed up perfectly in the Message Body. However in the Composer, where I at first used Courier 10 Pitch, only the š, Š, ž, and Ž letters where shown. The others where shown as blanks. Fortunately they did show up after I had changed the font to GNU unifont Mono too. Cheers, Leen