Re: french accents
On 08/18/2007 02:01 PM, Phill Atwood wrote:
This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me
to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into,
for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do
with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where
to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any help is
appreciated.
Thanks,
Phill
Install the package doc-linux-text and read the file
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.gz
Also read the Debian Reference's section on localization:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-l10n
or,
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz (install
debian-reference-en first).
I'm using the "us" keyboard layout, but I enabled "dead" keys by using
xmodmap to map an unused key to the Compose (or Multi_key) function.
Now I press (<Compose> ` e) to get è, and I press (<Compose> " a) to get ä.
Note, I'm using Sarge and XFree86. I wouldn't think that Etch/Xorg would
be terribly different.
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