Re: polish characters

[Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com>]

Ian Eure <ieure@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote:

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> Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an
> accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go into 
> KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the Xkb Options 
> tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the big 
> list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented characters 
> with key combos, e.g.:

> compose+slash, l = ł
> compose+single-quote, o = ó
> compose+semicolon, e = ę

Thanks a lot Ian.  I didn't have anything checked on the 'compose' key
option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts
with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french
layouts which I'm fairly familiar with, so to write é, I simply type
(assuming the keyboard itself has an english layout) the double quotes
followed immediately by the letter e.  I guess using a 'compose' key
would help in cases where you're not familiar with a keyboard layout
(as in my current case!).  But what do you do when a letter can have
more than one type of accent? I'd imagine you use your script below.


> ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter from
> KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it:

The problem is that I can't even find the polish accented characters
in KCharSelect.  I haven't looked at all the fonts, but doing that
everytime I need to find a character seems extremely inefficient to
me.  Do you use KCharSelect in a better way?

Your script looks great for other cases where I /can/ find the
character!

Thanks once again,

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Sebastian P. Luque