On Tuesday 23 July 2002 21:59, Warren Post wrote: > I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I > often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is > achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the > letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? > > Warren Can't you just setup a Spanish keyboard? If you are using KDE, it's trivial to set it up and switch between 2 keyboard layouts: KDE Control center-> Peripherals->Keyboard->Layout Mark your keyboards in the "Additional Layouts" section and once you've hit the apply button, you should see a keyboard switch icon in the taskbar. You can switch by clicking on that icon, by right clicking on it, or by hitting alt+ctrl+k.
Once you have set this up and are used to alt+ctrl+k to cycle through the keyboard layouts (I use U.S., Icelandic and Norwegian), you'll not want to type the "Alt+164" keystrokes again :-) I hope this solves your problem, Narfi. ps. Of course, if you're not using KDE, then I'm afraid I can't help you.
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