Hi Bryan, Bryan Linton writes: > I can't speak for anything officially recommended, but for > Japanese at least... (snip) > As far as Spanish is concerned... (snip) > I'd be interested in what other people use for the above tasks as > well.
For typing non-ASCII characters, I use a compose key (see Compose(5)). $ setxkbmap -option compose:ralt With XCompose you can remap your dead key sequences as much as you like too, since they're just extra compose keys. Works great for European languages with occasional accents as well as arbitrary UTF-8 symbols which I end up using very often. <Multi_key> <comma> <c> : "ç" <Multi_key> <grave> <e> : "è" <Multi_key> <apostrophe> <e> : "é" <Multi_key> <asciicircum> <e> : "ê" <Multi_key> <quotedbl> <e> : "ë" <Multi_key> <asciitilde> <n> : "ñ" <Multi_key> <asterisk> <G> : "Γ" <Multi_key> <minus> <l> : "→" <Multi_key> <plus> <minus> : "±" And so on. Sadly, this isn't really suitable for a language like Japanese that really needs a true IME. yasuoka@ has suggested uim/anthy in the past (http://yasuoka.net/~yasuoka/openbsd-desktop.html), and I haven't seen anyone suggest an alternate method for Japanese input. It beats typing romaji into Google Translate. -- Anthony J. Bentley
