At 07:50 PM 6/7/2006 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Jacobus Venter wrote:
Is there a way to enable the use of special characters in SuSe, for only using the ALT-key combination of the character? This will also include k-mail. I know special characters can be "inserted" in the office apps, by using "Insert / "Special Character", and then selecting the appropriate character from the set. I want to use the alt-key combo as it is used in windows, for instance for the ê, the key combo is ALT+136.
My preferred method for X: use the Alt key or any other key as the so-called Compose key or Multi-key, combining two characters into one special character. For example, I use the Pause key for this. The 'xev' command shows that it has keycode 110. So I have this line in ~/.Xmodmap:
keycode 110 = Multi_key
Then pressing this key followed by e and " gives ë. No need to remember those ALT-number key combos. The combinations are easy to guess. E.g. Compose key followed by + and - gives ± .
*************************************************************** This sort of thing works fine for those who only wish to use one language, or, for French, need both forward- and back- slanted accents, and ^. If you need Spanish and Italian, you need a different accent over the same letters in each language. Then if you need German, you need umlauts instead of accents. Those of us who only seldom need to insert a foreign word do not mind looking up a CTL plus numkey combo. Or if you have something like WordPerfect, CTL plus W will bring up a chart. (Actually, a series of charts.) I don't know what MS Word does. I don't own it. --doug ***************************************************************
Still, if you do a 'locate Compose' (mind the capital C) then you'll find a list of combinations for your character set.
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