On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, George OLson <grglsn765@gmail.com> wrote:
All I need to do is to be able to use the keyboard to enter the characters without having to take a mouse and clicking on an insert special character function when I type out data in a word processor like libre office, or when I enter text in a cell in a spreadsheet or database.
This is called the Compose Key or Multi_key (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Compose_key) and you can influence which key is used by adding an item to your xorg.conf, such as: Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" in the Section "InputDevice". In openSUSE, it has long been set to the right Ctrl+Shift key combination. Here is an excerpt from my Instructions to Users, which I give to my students: "Fonts: To produce accented characters, use the right Ctrl+Shift keys as Compose keys. Press the combination first, then press the accent key, then press the accented letter key. Within KMail, if Shift is pressed first, the text becomes flush-right (press Left Shift then Left Shift+Ctrl to fix). By starting with the Ctrl key, this conflicting behaviour is avoided. If you have problems displaying foreign characters (accented letters) in any text editor, try changing the font encoding method from utf-8 to iso8859-1. " -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org