Re: polish characters
Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > As a silly aside (and feel free to respond privately, if you prefer), can I > ask why you use the French layout at all? I use the Spanish layout for both > Spanish and French. Spanish has all the right bits for both languages (ç ê > etc.), but French doesn't have ñ or ¡ and whatnot, so the Spanish layout > seems to be the best bang for the buck. The keyboard layout is certainly different (i.e. the position of the keys are different), and some characters are not shared between the two languages, as you pointed out. I haven't tried if you can create accent grave in a spanish keyboard layout. But basically, it's a question of familiarity. My keyboard has a "physical" english layout, but when I'm writing in french, I like to use it as if it was a french keyboard, and likewise with spanish. For instance, to get "é" (in french) I would type the number 2 on my keyboard (this is where it is physically on a french keyboard), and to get "é" (in spanish) I'd hit the single quote key (this is where the accent is physically on a spanish keyboard) followed by the letter e, and so on. Now, I don't speak, write, or understand a word of polish, but I would have expected my keyboard to turn onto a polish keyboard upon selecting that layout on the quick launch bar, as it is for the other languages. In other words, I doubt (please correct me if I'm wrong) the polish need to type complicated key sequences involving Alt-Gr or some 'compose' key in order to write their characters! The following looks relevant and will have a look over the weekend: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue53/sipos.html but any further tips or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks so far, -- Sebastian P. Luque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polish characters
Sorry, but I've missed the beginning of this discussion. Are you use X.org? If yes, it has some broken layouts. --- Original message --- From: Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: polish characters Date: 12 Август 2005 06:44 > On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:29 am, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts > > with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french > > Playing now in Polish mode... > > ł > ę > ź > ó > > Are these Polish characters? It seems the way to get them is to use the > "Alt-Gr" key. I think out of the box it is supposed to be right Alt, but > that has never worked here for some reason. I redefined it in the KDE > keyboard setup thingie (on the Xkb Options tab) as Right Alt + Right Ctrl, > so, to get ł I type Right Alt+Right Ctrl+w, or for capital, add a shift Ł > > Tedious. I try to avoid the Alt-Gr thing. If you're forced to use it more > often, perhaps you can assign it to caps lock or something less involved. > > As a silly aside (and feel free to respond privately, if you prefer), can I > ask why you use the French layout at all? I use the Spanish layout for > both Spanish and French. Spanish has all the right bits for both languages > (ç ê etc.), but French doesn't have ñ or ¡ and whatnot, so the Spanish > layout seems to be the best bang for the buck.
Re: polish characters
On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:29 am, Sebastian Luque wrote: > option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts > with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french Playing now in Polish mode... ł ę ź ó Are these Polish characters? It seems the way to get them is to use the "Alt-Gr" key. I think out of the box it is supposed to be right Alt, but that has never worked here for some reason. I redefined it in the KDE keyboard setup thingie (on the Xkb Options tab) as Right Alt + Right Ctrl, so, to get ł I type Right Alt+Right Ctrl+w, or for capital, add a shift Ł Tedious. I try to avoid the Alt-Gr thing. If you're forced to use it more often, perhaps you can assign it to caps lock or something less involved. As a silly aside (and feel free to respond privately, if you prefer), can I ask why you use the French layout at all? I use the Spanish layout for both Spanish and French. Spanish has all the right bits for both languages (ç ê etc.), but French doesn't have ñ or ¡ and whatnot, so the Spanish layout seems to be the best bang for the buck. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Re: polish characters
On Thursday 11 August 2005 07:29 am, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > [...] > > > Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an > > accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go > > into KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the > > Xkb Options tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the > > big > > list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented > > characters with key combos, e.g.: > > > > compose+slash, l = ł > > compose+single-quote, o = ó > > compose+semicolon, e = ę > > Thanks a lot Ian. I didn't have anything checked on the 'compose' key > option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts > with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french > layouts which I'm fairly familiar with, so to write é, I simply type > (assuming the keyboard itself has an english layout) the double quotes > followed immediately by the letter e. I guess using a 'compose' key > would help in cases where you're not familiar with a keyboard layout > (as in my current case!). But what do you do when a letter can have > more than one type of accent? I'd imagine you use your script below. > I found most of the combos out just by fooling around, i.e.: compose+single-quote, e = é compose+backtick, e = è compose+double-quote, e = ë compose+tilde, e = ẽ compose+carat, e = ê The modifiers are pretty standard, i.e. compose+double-quote, some-letter will put umlauts over that character; same goes for the grave accents. > > ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter > > from KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it: > > The problem is that I can't even find the polish accented characters > in KCharSelect. I haven't looked at all the fonts, but doing that > everytime I need to find a character seems extremely inefficient to > me. Do you use KCharSelect in a better way? > I just visually scan the contents of the tables. Table 0 seems to have most of the accented Latin-1 characters. You may also be able to find a character by googling it's name on the site: fileformat.info. They have a map of all of Unicode, and you should be able to turn up what you're looking for. > Your script looks great for other cases where I /can/ find the > character! > It's not actually mine, I found it online somewhere. But you're welcome nonetheless.
Re: polish characters
Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: [...] > Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an > accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go into > KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the Xkb Options > tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the big > list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented characters > with key combos, e.g.: > compose+slash, l = ł > compose+single-quote, o = ó > compose+semicolon, e = ę Thanks a lot Ian. I didn't have anything checked on the 'compose' key option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french layouts which I'm fairly familiar with, so to write é, I simply type (assuming the keyboard itself has an english layout) the double quotes followed immediately by the letter e. I guess using a 'compose' key would help in cases where you're not familiar with a keyboard layout (as in my current case!). But what do you do when a letter can have more than one type of accent? I'd imagine you use your script below. > ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter from > KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it: The problem is that I can't even find the polish accented characters in KCharSelect. I haven't looked at all the fonts, but doing that everytime I need to find a character seems extremely inefficient to me. Do you use KCharSelect in a better way? Your script looks great for other cases where I /can/ find the character! Thanks once again, -- Sebastian P. Luque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polish characters
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Would somebody please point out how to set up a polish keyboard in > KDE? I tried configuring the keyboard layout in control center, > selected the polish keyboard layout, but cannot find where all the > language-specific characters are. In fact, it seems that the US layout > is still being used. It would help to have some application that > shows where each character is on the keyboard. Macs have something > where you shown a keyboard layout and the keys change colors, > depending on which one you press, as well as showing the modified keys > after shift, ctrl, alt. Anyone know an equivalent of that? > Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go into KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the Xkb Options tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the big list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented characters with key combos, e.g.: compose+slash, l = ł compose+single-quote, o = ó compose+semicolon, e = ę ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter from KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it: #!/bin/sh dir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale dir="$dir/`sed -n "s#\([^/]*\)/.*:.*$LANG#\1#p" \ < $dir/locale.dir`" grep -F $1 $dir/Compose just run it and pass it a single character as an argument, e.g.: $ ./compose.sh é : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE $ Those are the possible combos for entering that character - you're interested in the Multi_key sequences. Hope this helps.
