On Monday 15 July 2002 17:53, Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
Where can I find the special characters, like an umlaut on top of an u? In Windows there is a charactermap, is there something like that in SuSE8.0? I couldn't find it in the help file, nor in the RTFM.
(In case you were wondering: I copied my signature from Windows). ==================== Frits, From my "newbie notes", I pulled this info. Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose to get a listing of all the special characters and what keystrokes are needed to get them for that character set. You can change the "iso" number to see any other set. Don't remember exactly where to look to find what your "compose" key is, someone here probably remembers better than I do. And you can of course define your own "compose" key.
Usually from the keyboard, you do your "compose" key or keys and then the needed keys to get your character. In SuSE 8.0, the default "compose" key combo is left-shift, left-Ctrl and then the right Windows key. I think that same combination is good in 7.3 also. Release those, then press the keyboard combo to get your character. Like this for a degrees sign, compose key, 0 then shift 6 and that will give you 98°, if you like. Or compose key, u key then double quotes, which gives you this ü or ë or ä, using e & a keys. ¿How is that? :o) Patrick -- ----------end of line........ --- KMail v1.4.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206