Re: [Evolution] Inputting foreign German French characters into an email

[Matthias Apitz <guru unixarea de>]

El día Tuesday, March 22, 2011 a las 09:47:23PM +1000, Peter Cave escribió:

> Hi
>
> I have installed the relevant dictionaries but cannot find how to enter
> the foreign characters into an email.
>
> Windows uses ALT+xxxx where xxxx is a number and the appropriate
> character is entered into the text.
>
> I can find no reference in the documentation to determine how foreign
> characters are entered.

Hi,

I run KDE+Evo+... on a laptop with a German keyboard layout. To use
Spanish tilded chars which are not on the keyboard I set the so called
Windows-key to a special mode wherein WinKey+n, for example, gives the
Spanish n with tilde (don't know if you see it in your MUA, here you
have three of them: ñññ); the commands used on KDE boot up are like:

# para español:
#
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x73 =  Mode_switch"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x39 =  n N ntilde Ntilde"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1a =  e E eacute Eacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x26 =  a A aacute Aacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1f =  i I iacute Iacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1e =  u U uacute Uacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x20 =  o O oacute Oacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x14 =  questiondown question backslash ssharp"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0a =  1 exclam exclamdown onesuperior"

You can easily adopt this to produce the foreign characters you need;

HIH

        matthias
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