Re: [Evolution] Special characters.

["Art Alexion" <art RHD ORG>]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 09:46 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:12 +0100, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> > If I want to enter "special characters" (in Open Office this is on
> the
> > "insert" pull-down menu) I can find all the continental characters
> and
> > (c), (T) and fractions.
> >
> > How does this work in evolution?  
>
> AFAIK Evo just uses the system keyboard configuration. Personally, I
> have a US-style keyboard but configure my system to use dead-keys (I
> write a lot in Spanish) e.g.: ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÂÂ

I use xmodmap to accomplish the same thing.  The following short script
is in my Autostart directory.

#!/bin/bash 

xmodmap -e "keysym Super_L = Multi_key"

This assigns the "Windows key" as the modifier.  To create Ã, I just
type (in sequence, not simultaneously) <win key> -> ' -> e.  Most of the
combos are intuitive, e.g., <win> -> o -> c gives you Â.  There are
references available throughout the web.


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