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

[Peter Cave <cave tpg com au>]

Hello David

Thank you for your quick response I will follow it through - I just
could not find anything in the documentation and not understanding that
the right Alt key was AltGr. 

I am sure I wont have any further problem with this now.

Regards

Peter Cave


On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 12:29 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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