Re: [Evolution] Accented characters

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:11, Marc Williams wrote:
> One of the things I miss most from my Windows days was how drop dead
> easy it was to type Extended ASCII characters.  Alt + code.  That's
> all.  Worked from any text entry window.  If I wanted an enye (n with a
> tilde diacritical - I would demonstrate but I have no idea how from my
> Evolution window), type <alt>164.  Done.  Charts of Extended ASCII
> characters can be found in hundreds of places on the web.  I always had
> one at the ready.
>
> If there is a likewise easy way in Linux, I would like to be
> enlightened.
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:21, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On the commandlin, enter: gkb_xmmap <locale>
> > >
> > > For example, to change to a spanish keyboard mapping, type:
> > >
> > > gkb_xmmap es
> >
> > Or even better, you can assign a key to be the Compose key.  This has
> > the advantage of not changing the layout of the keyboard at all.  For
> > example:
> >
> >     xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Meta_R" -e "keysym Meta_R = Multi_key"
> >
> > will set up the right Alt key to be Compose.  If e.g. you want to type
> > "è", you type "RightAlt ` e".  Or if you want to type "ñ" you type
> > "RightAlt ~ n".
> >
> > I think there is a way to do this from XF86Config too, but I don't know
> > how that works.

Don't forget, there are the 'Character Picker' and 'GKB Switcher'
applets for the gnome panel.

-- 
Stephen