Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:51 pm, Laurent Duperval wrote: > > 2. Is there a way to "sacrifice" a different key? (Instead, can we > > assign the back-slash key to be the 'dead' key?) > > Yes. To do that, you can use xmodmap. Read the xmodmap page or take a look > at the example xmodmap's in the source code for gnome-applets. > > L And xkeycaps can generate your xmodmap file for you if you want to do it that way. -- stephen
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
Thanks. Now I getting somewhere. But I still have two more questions. 1. What is "xkeycaps" and where do you get it from? 2. Is there a way to "sacrifice" a different key? (Instead, can we assign the back-slash key to be the 'dead' key?) Sevatio >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/15/01, 2:59:28 PM, Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer: > It's easy. You select the "US keyboard (international)" in the Mandrake > control center -> hardware -> keyboard. > Then you can make use of "deadkeys" to type characters like ä (single quote > followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), > ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), > and ê (shift 6 followed by e). > Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. > -- Stephen > On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:51 pm, Sevatio wrote: > > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > > available in the English alphabet? > > > > -TIA > > Sevatio
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
On Monday 16 July 2001 05:24 am, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: > * Stardate: 2001-07-15 17:59 > > * Incoming subspace signal from "Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > > It's easy. You select the "US keyboard (international)" in the Mandrake > > control center -> hardware -> keyboard. > > Then you can make use of "deadkeys" to type characters like ä (single > > quote > > "deadkeys" ? What is that ? It means that if you type in the ' <- single quote character with the deadkeys enabled once, you get nothing. To actually get a single quote you must type in a single quote two times, or a single quote followed by a space key. The single quote key has been "overloaded" to act as a function key for some vowels. This is set up in the US keyboard (international). Other dead keys are shift 6 and the backtick key. Tschüß, Stephen > > followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by > > e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this > > one), and ê (shift 6 followed by e). > > Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. > > -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 17:59 * Incoming subspace signal from "Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > It's easy. You select the "US keyboard (international)" in the Mandrake > control center -> hardware -> keyboard. > Then you can make use of "deadkeys" to type characters like ä (single quote "deadkeys" ? What is that ? > followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), > ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), > and ê (shift 6 followed by e). > Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. > -- Stephen > On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:51 pm, Sevatio wrote: > > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > > available in the English alphabet? > > -TIA > > Sevatio -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
It's easy. You select the "US keyboard (international)" in the Mandrake control center -> hardware -> keyboard. Then you can make use of "deadkeys" to type characters like ä (single quote followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), and ê (shift 6 followed by e). Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. -- Stephen On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:51 pm, Sevatio wrote: > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > available in the English alphabet? > > -TIA > Sevatio
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 23:28 * Incoming subspace signal from "Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > What characters? Diacritic, diacritcal, whatever. I mean something like an "n" with a "~" on top of it. Like in the spanish nino. > have you tried combination with ALTGR?; > for example ALTGR + S writes ß in my Spanish keyboard It writes a plain "s" on my US keyboard. > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > El Dom 15 Jul 2001 23:20, escribiste: > > * Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 > > * Incoming subspace signal from "Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > > > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > > > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > > > available in the English alphabet? > > > -TIA > > > Sevatio > > Umm.. correction.. DIACRITIC characters. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 * Incoming subspace signal from "Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > available in the English alphabet? > -TIA > Sevatio Umm.. correction.. DIACRITIC characters. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 * Incoming subspace signal from "Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: > How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally > available in the English alphabet? > -TIA > Sevatio Diacritical characters are a problem in Linux I guess. I have tried to get it working in the console and in Midnight Commander, but I didn't find a workable solution yet. There is information on this subject in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html Please let us know if you get it working. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
[expert] Accessing French & German ASCII Characters? How?
I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio
