Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:29 am, David Wright wrote:
> French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at
> least in Gnome applications) using keyboard combinations?
> I'm very tired of mousing up to the little gnome character pallet
> utility every few words when write a multi-page document. I'd like to be
> able to do something like ALT-" + O to produce an umlauted O.
I haven't used GNOME in years, and I have no idea if the new one still has
this or not, but I imagine it almost certainly does. What I do in KDE is use
the keyboard layout switcher to flip between languages.
This seems like a lot of trouble perhaps, but if you write at any length in
other languages it's really much more convenient than any other way of
generating the special characters. I used to type circles around people who
were doing the alt-0123 thing back in school (foreign language major.)
I've just checked, and the Spanish layout seems suitable for German too, I
think. You could make do just learning one alternative. Je peux écrire en
français, o en español, and if memory serves, German needs only the umlaut
and the ß thing, with maybe an accute accent or two somewhere or other. I
think I can type everything from here in the Spanish layout.
áéíóúàèìòùäëïöüâêîôûñÑçÇ“”«»€æÆ
I can't find an oe thing, but that's one French can live without anyway.
> By the way, Windows has had this feature nailed down pat for about the
> last decade. Same key combinations, doesn't depend on the window
> manager, session manager, or application. Amazing. :-)
Mayhap, but it's still impractical for anything other than very occasional
use. I had a keyboard switcher flummy for Windows too. It's worth the time
to learn if you do anything more than the most trivial little bit of some
other language.
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