Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

2022-09-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: Others have mentioned Ctrl-Shift-u, which gives you the opportunity to enter the Unicode value for the character you want. I need a lot of these for linguistics work, so I made up a little table with two columns, one for the character as it appears a

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

2022-09-16 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . I used to just switch the keyboard to appropriate language and print the keyboard layout on a piece of paper. After a while, I'd get used to the layout. Much faster than entering key codes, even if you remember them. It probably would not be so easy in arabic or Japanese That is differe

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

2022-09-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >My locale is set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I write primarily in text-based >applications such as emacs and alpine, and I want to learn how to enter >accented characters so I can type, for example, Résumé rather than >Resume. Others have men