In the Mandrake Control Centre (assuming you have LM 8.0), set your keyboard
to US International.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:37, Steven Watt wrote:
> Since I installed new versions of three font RPMs (don?t ask why...), I?ve
> been having problems getting accents and special charaters. For example,
> when I try and type èêöç I get the following:
>
> -in most applications (including gedit and galeon): eeoc (no accents at
> all) -in Star Office: ?e^e¨o¸c (accents preceed letter)
> -in Abiword: èêöç (no problems, seems to be the only application working
> ok)
>
> When I noticed the problem, I uninstalled the RPMs and reinstalled the
> earlier versions (assuming that?s what was causing the problem). But the
> problem is still there. The RPMs I installed (and then later removed) were
> fonts-ttf-big5-1.0-12mdk (replaced 1.0-9_ ,
> fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-9mdk (replaced 1.3-8), and
> fonts-ttf-decorative-1.3-9mdk (1.3-8).
>
> Steve Watt
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