Re: Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-16 Thread cobaco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-02-15 20:32, Bruce Miller wrote: I am looking for the simplest way to enter non-English characters from an English keyboard (e.g. ). In Windows, it was never hard; there are few enough that I usually remembered the Alt+nnn keycode for

Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Bruce Miller
I have many friends whose first language is not English. Most are quite relaxed about polglotism: they write to me in their first language, and I reply in mine (English). Sometimes, however, I need to write in their language. I have been too busy learning the other mechanics of Linux to worry

Re: Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bruce Miller [Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:32:01 -0500]: I am looking for the simplest way to enter non-English characters from an English keyboard (e.g. ). In Windows, it was never hard; there are few enough that I usually remembered the Alt+nnn keycode for the 437 and 850 codepages. For

Re: Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:32:01PM -0500, Bruce Miller wrote: I have many friends whose first language is not English. Most are quite relaxed about polglotism: they write to me in their first language, and I reply in mine (English). Sometimes, however, I need to write in their language. I

Re: [oclug] Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Bruce Miller
On February 15, 2004 16:09, Kevin Everets wrote: Under X-windows, there is a more intuitive setup but it is not (often) the default. First, you assign some key to be your Multi_key, which is often assigned to be the right Alt key. To do so, create a file called multikey.map which contains

Re: [oclug] Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bruce Miller [Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:36:05 -0500]: Thanks for the suggestion. It works superbly --- with only one small problem. My third language is Swedish and I haven't yet found the Scandinavian å --- a-circle, which, in older texts, in sometimes printed as a double aa. As appears

Re: [oclug] Occasional texts in languages other than English

2004-02-15 Thread Bruce Miller
Thanks to everyone for your help. Merci à tous pour vos conseils. Tack till alla för ert hjälp. Takk till alle for Deres hjelp. etc.