I would have attached a copy of a letter I got after asking the same question, but I suspect that the server strips attachments, other than the ones that start "[SLE..." which I hate. So I reproduce the message I received. Unfortunately, Linux is kinda cumbersome, compared to DOS/Windows in this area. But any way, here it is: Quote on/ On Saturday 24 November 2001 01:01, you wrote:
OK, here I am in Linux, and sure enough, all the WordStar commands that work almost anywhere in DOS and Windows do _not_ work here, to provide the pronunciation marks required by European languages. But there must be a way for the English-speaking writer to indicate these marks without setting his keyboard to write in the foreign language. Since the DOS commands don't work, can someone tell me how to produce, with least effort, the following marks, which I can post up on my wall and use as needed:
Hi, I'm sending this off-list because I wrote about this at least three times in the past year. But I saw that no one else answered your question, so let me try once again. Special characters can be typed using the so-called Compose key. This may be the windows key next to the right Alt key (7.2 and 7.3) or the right Control key (before 7.2). Just try it out. To type an ø, for example, press the Compose key, then type o/ or /o (or you can even type o and / simultaneously). Do not keep the 'Compose key' pressed down when typing o/ or /o. ------------------------------------------------------------ If you cannot find the Compose key, or you would like to use another key for it, run the command xev If you press the key that you want to use as the Compose key, one of the many things you see is the 'key code'. Suppose, for example, that the key code is 109. Then in ~/.Xmodmap add the line keycode 109 = Multi_key After restarting X your new Compose key should work. ------------------------------------------------------------ The two characters needed for a special character can be found in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose (in SuSE 7.1 anyway. If you cannot find it, do a locate Compose (mind the capital C)). So for these special characters type the Compose key (or 'Multi-key') followed by these two characters:
German: A-umlaut, upper and lower case
A" a" (remember, the order does not matter, so instead of a" you could type "a etc.).
O-umlaut, ditto
O" o"
U-umlaut, ditto
U" u"
ess-tset
ss
Spanish: Upside-down question mark
??
Upside-down exclamation point
!!
Forward accent a, e, i, o, u, upper and lower case
A' a' E' e' I' i' O' o' U' u'
n with ~ upper and lower case
N~ n~
Italian: a,e,i,o,u backward accent, upper and lower case
A` a` E` e` I` i` O` o` U` u`
the Lira symbol (Maybe same as Pound?)
cannot find the Lira symbol. Perhaps another character set than ISO 8859-1? Don't know if it's the same as the Pound.
British: The Pound symbol
L=
European: The Euro symbol (Yes my computer maybe can't, don't know)
Don't know enough about this one yet. It seems that you need ISO 8859-15 for this instead of ISO 8859-1. I've heard some rumours about the latest versions of KDE supporting it. I've got Wordperfect Office 2000 for Linux supporting it. StarOffice probably supports it.
Miscellaneous: the plus/minus symbol
You guessed it: +-
The greater than or equal symbol
>=
the less than or equal symbol
<=
the degree symbol (small circle above the line)
0^ (zero ^)
the left and right quotation marks that some Europeans use, (under DOS, ALT 174 and ALT 175)
Haven't found this one. Perhaps supported by software such as StarOffice and WP? Regards, SH /Quote off/ So there you are. BTW, the latest StarOffice may solve that problem. I am going to install 6.0 fairly soon. SuSE has a deal on it--it's no longer free--but it's about $32US which is pretty cheap for a full-up office suite--damned near free! At 22:53 07/15/2002 +0100, 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 J. Wüthrich (Sent with Kmail)