Re: [Evolution] Accented characters

[Marc Williams <marcw onlymooo com>]

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 06:50, Stephen Witkop wrote:
> 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.
>
> Don't forget, there are the 'Character Picker' and 'GKB Switcher'
> applets for the gnome panel.

Of course "forgetting" implies that I knew this at one time, which I did
not.  Thanks for the tip.  Any idea how I would increase the the number
of characters that "Character Picker" displays?