RE: [Usability] Re: [Fwd: Re: Your final comments on gswitchit in 2.4...]

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

Do you guys know about the compose keys? On my English keyboard I press
Alt Gr + . and then for instance c then o, and I get ©,

Alt Gr + . s s = ß
Alt Gr + . t h = þ
Alt Gr + . - d = đ
Alt Gr + . ~ n = ñ
Alt Gr + . a e = æ

etc etc... 

I find this very easy to use and very useful

Cheers, Kenneth

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:27, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Christian Rose [mailto:menthos gnome org] 
> > There's actually only one
> > character in German that's not at all possible to type in from a
> > standard Swedish layout and that's s-z ("ß"). So there's been little
> > need to change the layout (especially since changing layouts gets you
> > all the layout weirdnesses with keys moving from one place to another
> > and requires re-learning), 
> 
> I really miss the old Mac system which used an extra key press to get a
> specific accent. I think it was option-something and then the character. The
> option-something would give you
> accents/umlaut/other-strange-things-on-top-of-characters. I can't remember
> how it dealt with ß, but I'm sure I never switched my entire keyboard layout
> just to type a funny character. And I regularly typed almost every european
> language that there is.
> 
> Murray Cumming
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