On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:59, nigel henry wrote: > Hi. I am living in France, my keyboard is a UK qwerty one. The OS is in > English, apart from some apps like Firefox which are in French. > > I can create a letter in Open Office, and can apply the French accents to > it where needed, but have no idea how to get access to accented keys to > reply to French e-mails. > > I don't know if the KDE list is the right one, as the problem seems to be > more to do with keyboard mapping. I've never used a French keyboard, so > have no idea how the accented "a", "e", etc are selected. > > I'd be very gratefull for any suggestions. > > Nigel. Replying to my own post, I seem to have solved the problem using Kxkb. I have been able to keep my qwerty layout by using the Canadian keyboard layout, and now have the additional, é, è, à, ç, etc. Nigel. > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.