Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1983 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, jeff wrote:
> I have recently been converted to Linux (SUSE 5.3) and think it's great,
> but have run into one minor stumbling block: I haven't figured out how to
> type the foreign characters (å ä ö ü ß) I need for Swedish and German. 
> Till now I've been entering them in TeX-style control codes (\aa, \ae etc)
> and converting them to the proper characters with macros, but this gets
> pretty tiresome everytime I want to send a quick email.  I know there has
> got to be an app like Windows charmap that identifies the key sequences
> for special characters, or a table of some sort to give the same
> information, but I'm damned if I can find one!  All of the HOWTO's etc.
> seem to assume you will be picking one language and sticking with it
> (Unless I've just been looking at all of the wrong ones).

Try using ALT+XXX where XXX is a number on the "grey" keypad

ÔÞßáâäæõöú

These are from 200 and up.
You can enter any char that way from the keyboard.

-alexm

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