Re: [Easytag-mailing] Entering Accented Characters

[Hood Family <hoodbild maxnet co nz>]

Hi again,

Alastair wrote:
> Hi all, 
> Using Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with KDE desktop) I wish to use accented characters 
> such as e accute (é) in one of the tagging fields but cannot. I cannot even right click to 
> paste the character in from my clipboard.  
>   
Try pasting with Ctrl-C, or the middle mouse button.
Maybe it would be good to add Copy, Cut and Paste to the menu...
> I do not have a grey Alt R key and get no joy with my grey Alt L which works on other 
> OSs.
>
> Several years ago Jerome gave me instructions but the link in his post is now dead.  
> Grateful for any help please.
>   
I think that is pretty off-topic for this list, but anyway:
If you want an Alt-Gr key you probably need to either choose a different 
keyboard layout (I think I would
choose "US international", but I'm not sure if there is a British 
international layout for you), or just change the
mapping on that particular key. I don't have KDE, but I'm sure it should 
be easy. They might have a
setting called something like the "third level modifier".

Alternatively you can configure a Compose key, which I think is the most 
intuitive way to enter accented
characters - e.g. I press Compose, then ' then e to enter é.

Or you could even press Ctrl-Shift-u, then the unicode sequence (e.g. 
00E9 for é), then space or enter ☺
> On a second point my settings preferences have UTF-8 for ID3v2 but for ID3v1.x the 
> setting is Western (ISO-8859) which is the default.  Why is that and should not they both 
> be UTF-8? 
>
> Regards,
> Alastair.