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Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?



 --- James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net> wrote: 
> I can't seem to puzzle out how to input unicode into
> X apps: specifically,
> I need to do this in OpenOffice.org. 

> But I'd
> like to just be able to
> type away at the keyboard in Russian, Greek or
> Tagalog.  

Firstly, Debian has most of the fonts you need,
apt-cache search font will show you.

Secondly, how you input characters depends on your
keyboard layout. For example AltGr+ : or ' or # might
give acute, cicumflex or grave accents respectively,
like éêè - this works on my gb keyboard layout.

For other combinations you need different deadkeys or
a different keyboard layout.

The easiest is to use setxkbmap.  For example, doing:

setxkbmap gb
setxkbmap cz
setxkbmap fr

will give british, czech and french keyboards
respectively.

This works very well in all appls that understand
unicode including oo.org, emacs and uxterm.

 


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