Jamie wrote:
>> This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's?
The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/,
and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. <<
Yes, I've looked. I printed out the entire Font How-To, read the
DeUglification How-To, and searched over the Internet, on MandrakeForum,
and looked through the indexes of about 20 Linux books in Barnes and
Noble. The only book that had *anything* about extended character sets
was Peter Norton's, and what it had wasn't helpful.
Also, given that there are character maps for both Gnome and KDE, you
would expect that if you could select an extended character from the
keyboard, you'd see the keyboard selector keys somewhere on the
character map as you do with Character Map in Windows. But there are no
keyboard equivalents in the Gnome and K character maps. You have to
highlight the desired character, copy it to the clipboard, and paste
into your application. This is wildly impractical. Even worse, only the
characters in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) are shown in the character maps, so
you CAN'T copy and paste such basic characters is a true apostrophe,
typographic opening and closing quotation marks, em and en dashes,
bullets, and true fractions for 1/4 and 3/4 into your application. If
you have to copy and paste, obviously you can't use a character that
doesn't appear in the character map.
>> im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry,
i cant remember the name of the document. <<
If by any chance you find it, I would be most grateful if you'd post a
message with its name and location.
--Judy Miner
