As requested, here an English translation of my answer...
How to input the enye...
Noong Miy, Hul 14, 2004 ng 11:30:19AM +0800, sinabi ni Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas:
> Quoting Bopolissimus X Platypus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Can anyone point me at how to do that? I'll be googling too.
>
> Ah, I've had the same problem for years. It's silly for Unix to be this
> charset-centric. Hmp. I've never found a clean system-wide solution yet, but
> in
> Emacs, you can install Leim (by RPM or some other advanced package manager,
> hopefully, otherwise you'd have to recompile from source...) and use some
> alternative input method (C-\). For the Latin postfix IME I use, I can type in
> tilde ('~') and then some appropriate character, say 'n', and it gives me the
> corresponding stroked/accented (?) character, '�'.
>
> If you do find a general solution, please tell me.
This answer is a bit late, but I'm certain that many will benefit from
it.
The general solution to this is to use the correct keymap in console
and in X. The easiest to use is the "US International keymap with
deadkeys". There are different ways of setting this up according to
the distribution and environment that you use.
On the console, there are several things that have to be set up
besides the keymap. A charset that displays the enye (��) and other
letters with accent marks, like ������. You should use the ISO-8859-15
or UTF-8 charsets. Your locale should also support this.
(Additional information not in the original message: the current tl_PH
locale that is shipped with most distributions currently supports only
ISO-8859-1. Internationalization/Localization efforts are moving
towards using UTF-8 in general and we should work toward using UTF-8
as well.)
In the X Window System, you can set up the keyboard in the
configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or wherever this is on your
system) in Section "InputDevice" with Driver "keyboard" with Option
"us_intl" for XkbLayout. Here is an example snippet:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection
In Gnome, you will also need to set the keymap to be used in "Keyboard
Preferences" (in Debian, you will find this in Applications/Desktop
Preferences/Keyboard). Choose the Layouts tab, select "U.S.
English w/ deadkeys" from "Available layouts" and add it to "Selected
layouts". Make it the first entry in the list.
In Emacs, using M-x iso-accents-mode will help in entering letters
like � o � o � without any difficulty.
In all of the above cases, inputting letters with accent marks or
tilde is very easy. First, you type in the accent mark/tilde then
immediately follow it with the letter that will be accented.
For example, to input the enye, you type ~n. To input �, you simply
type ^o.
At first, this keymap can get in the way of touch-typists or those who
are already used to typing fast on a plain keymap. However, in the
long run, it helps a lot for those who have to input letters with
accent marks/tildes.
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