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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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

For those of us who work in non English-speaking environments this kind
of thing gets old pretty quickly. Accents (in Spanish) are something I
need *all the time* and having to type AltGr combos is a cognitive
barrier that interrupts my train of thought.

OTOH I hate non-English keyboards because they tend to hide stuff
like /, @, : and so on. Solution: I use the "US International" keyboard
mode with a US-standard keyboard. I then enter the diacriticals directly
via dead keys, thus I get ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ by typing 'a'e`e ... ~n"u^o. Of
course some stuff requires a bit more work which may call for the AltGr
stuff but it tends to be much less used.

The downside is that every time I need to enter my own name I have to
type O' Callaghan :-)

poc