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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 21:47 +1000, Peter Cave wrote:
> 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.

As Matthias pointed out, this is a system-wide setting and not really
anything to do with Evolution.

As well as the Ctrl-Shift-U-x-x-x-x trick that Andrà mentioned, you may
also get a lot of other characters more easily.

For example with the standard UK keymap, I get 'dead-key' accents with
the right Alt key (AltGr) and the ;'#[]=/ keys for ÃÃÃÃáÈá accents â so
to type AndrÃ's name it's AltGr-; followed by e.

There are also a number of interesting characters available just by
using right-alt with number and letter keys, both with and without
shift:

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm1234567890-ÌÌ.
@ÅeÂÅâââÃÃÃÃÃÄÅÄjÄÅÂÂÂâânÂÂÂÂâÂÂ{[]}\Â
ÎÅEÂÅÂâÄÃÃÃÂÃÂÅÄJ&Å<>ÂââNÂÂâÂÂââââÂÂÂÃ

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