Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)
The Wednesday 21 August 2013 23:37:25, Bob Proulx wrote :
> I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
> wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant
> accented characters.
>
> I had previously read:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html
>
> And that pointed me off to the very nicely written article:
>
>
> http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/xorg-using-the-us-internation
> al-altgr-intl-variant-keyboard-layout/
>
> That seemed to have been the best recommendation. So I went off and
> set up:
>
> setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl
>
> All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily
> input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the
> bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters
> with the above.
>
> Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred
> characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that
> I should recommend to them?
>
> Thanks!
> Bob
See http://userbase.kde.org/ComposeKey
Same can be found for gnome and others. Usefull info can be found there too:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
Thierry
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