I've got the international characters set up a little differently in X
(I use Gnome)
and find this really really convenient. I generally only use
international chracters for testing so this method makes it easy for
me to compose the characters I want.
I have the following in my .Xmodmap
keycode 78 = Multi_key
That is, set the scroll lock key as a multi key character
Then
ScrollLock a "
gives you ä (a with umlaut). So all the character compositions are
really obvious à, â, å
I think the Multi_key was all I needed to set up.
...Peter
Peter Flynn writes:
> > Really stupid question:
> > How do you guys enter the special characters in utf-8 files?
>
> a) which special characters? XML is Unicode, there are thousands.
>
> b) if you're using a western european language, maybe use iso-8859-1
> instead of utf-8.
>
> > Do I need a special editor, how do I find out what (code?) to enter?
>
> If the character you want is one your operating system can display,
> and you've got a keyboard character or short cut for it, just type it.
>
> Example: a-with-umlaut, ä
> Linux: type AltGr-[ a
> Windows: type Alt-0-2-2-8
> Mac: (some Mac user please suggest)
>
> If your editor won't accept these characters, trash it and get one
> that does.
>
> If the character is one your screen cannot display, or your keyboard
> cannot generate, type the numeric character entity (you need a table
> of Unicode characters to look it up, see www.unicode.org)
>
> Example: a-with-umlaut (again), type ä
> w-with-circumflex (Welsh), type ŵ
>
> If you get black or open squares or other non-character symbols when
> you expect a printable character, it means your editor does not have
> a font which it can use for this character. In this case:
>
> * either get a font from someone in the community which uses
> these characters,
>
> * or test the file to make sure it really has stored the
> character (save it and check it via a browser or some system that
> displays the character), and then ignore it.
>
> ///Peter
>
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