Martin Stricker wrote:
I'm working for a US ccompany, so I often don't have a German keyboard
available. How can I still type German Umlauts (ÄäÖöÜüß) and other
special characters (like accented characters for French names etc.)? In
Windows it's easy, I just need to know the character code from the
codepage, hold the [Alt] key and type that number on the numeric keypad.
Or I can use a small program called charmap.exe which shows all
available characters for a font. Is there anything similar to both
approaches (I need it on the console as well)?
I don't know of anything for the console, but my favourite way is to map a spare key to "Multi_key" and then I can type things like «Multi_key a "» -- that's three separate keystrokes give ä and the guillmets are "Multi_key < <" and "Multi_key >>" respectively. German double-s (ß) is, as you would expect «Multi_key s s». These compose sequences (as they are called) are defined in /usr/lib/X11/locale/*/Compose files. I believe I'm using the en_US.UTF-8 file :-)
jch
How is Multi_key used?
I would like to be able to generate "degree" symbols and a few others.
I find the following in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose
<Multi_key> <0> <asciicircum> : "\260" degree <Multi_key> <asciicircum> <0> : "\260" degree <Multi_key> <0> <asterisk> : "\260" degree <Multi_key> <asterisk> <0> : "\260" degree
But don't know how to use them.
Thanks.
Bob Goodwin
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