Re: special characters
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:15:52 +0200 Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> Dear all,
> I encounter a very weird problem. When my girls friend logs in our
> machine and uses KDE she has no special characters like umlauts.
> Everything works fine with icewm and I don't have any problems using
> either icewm or KDE. I've checked every configuration option in
> kcontrol but havn't got to a solition so far. Can you give me any
> hints where to look?
1) Control panel / Regional and Accessibility / Country/Region & Layout
and
2) Control panel / Regional and Accessibility / Keyboard layout
Layout tab
Xkb options tab
You haven't described what you do to get the umlauts. There are
various ways (as usual!), and it's gets quite confusing. I use this
option under 'Xkb options', under 'Third level choosers':
'Press Right Alt to choose 3rd level, Shift+Right Alt-key is
multi_key'
To get o umlaut ö with this setting, there are two ways:
1) AltGr+[ then o (dead keys method)
2) Shift+AltGr then " then o (combining key method)
This page is quite useful:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkeyboard/
There is also the complication of different keyboard layouts et.c
Luke
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