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 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>