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RedHat: Re: Typing More Than American English

Re: Typing More Than American English

Source: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2003-10/2988.html

From: Peter B. West (pbwest_at_powerup.com.au)

Date: 10/31/03

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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:10:47 +1000

> Subject:

> Typing More Than American English

> From:

> Kent Borg

> Date:

> Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:23:24 -0500

> To:

> ******-****@******.***

>

>

> As do many of us, I know how to type basic ASCII on a US keyboard

> layout. But what do I do if I want to occasionally type additional

> characters from European languages that are based on the Latin

> alphabet

>

> To be specific: I want to type accented vowels, inverted question

> marks and exclamation points, an "n" with a tilda over it, maybe even

> some of those Scandinavian characters, the double-S the Germans

> haven't quite given up, etc.

>

> The US International keyboard does much of that, but not the inverted

> question marks and exclamation points.

>

> The United Kingdom layout gives me those (and plenty of other cool

> characters) but I can't find basic accented vowels. (Some keys act a

> bit strange, as though they are trying to be dead keys, but I can't

> make any accented vowels come out.)

>

> Something like the Spanish or Latin American layouts would do pretty

> well, but they are too different from they layout my fingers already

> know.

>

> I know how to do all these on a Macintosh, but not on Redhat Linux.

> Any suggestions

>

Re: Typing More Than American English 1

RedHat: Re: Typing More Than American English

Use your "natural" keyboard layout (US I assume), with or without dead

key support, and set up a compose key. Somewhere in the keyboard

configuration you have an option to specify one of a number of keys as

the 'Compose' key, e.g. Menu RightWindows RightAlt. I can't remember

the details off the top of my head. I use the Menu key as my compose.

To use it, you press compose, then the two keys you want to compose, in

either order. The only problem I have found - and this is changed from

7.3 in the wonderful RH9 experiment - is that the VT consoles don't do

composition, and that it doesn't work in *some* X11 applications any

more. I would like to fully restore Compose functionality, but I only

have one lifetime.

Peter

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