On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:52:59AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Same problem as you: accents aren't available on En keyboards (or by > tricks I ignore). I use to pick them from various documents with the mouse - > or use a Fr keyboard.
Then you want a Compose key. On real keyboards, it's best to bind it to a totally unused thing like Menu, on laptops, a key combination (I think one is bound by default, can't check right now as virtualbox is kaput, too lazy to install a new one in qemu). There's even a bunch of implementations for Windows, one included in putty. Compose key includes, among others, combinations for all the accents/ umlauts/etc which don't require memorization: you press Compose then the base letter then the given decoration: * Compose, a, ',' for ą * Compose, o, '"' for ö * Compose, e, "'" for é * Compose, a, '*' for å (ok, * is a bit unobvious) * Compose, o, '/' for ø * Compose, 1, 2 for ½ and so on. No need to use copy&paste for decorated latin characters. -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
