Re: OT: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-13 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2013-01-13, Leslie Turriff jlturr...@centurytel.net wrote: I've been searching the web for information about how to type accented characters (French) using a US 104-key keyboard. I understand that a compose key is involved, but everything I've found so far has involved adding

Re: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-13 Thread Alex Plantema
Op zondag 13 januari 2013 02:47 schreef Leslie Turriff: I've been searching the web for information about how to type accented characters (French) using a US 104-key keyboard. I understand that a compose key is involved, but everything I've found so far has involved adding character=key

Re: wrongly identified geometric shape

2013-01-13 Thread philip chastney
From: Michel Suignard mic...@suignard.com To: philip chastney philip_chast...@yahoo.com Cc: unicode List unicode@unicode.org Sent: Monday, 17 December 2012, 23:37 Subject: RE: wrongly identified geometric shape I spent some times analyzing your documents and I can see you are trying to

Re: OT: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-13 Thread Leslie Turriff
On Sunday 13 January 2013 02:19:57 Julian Bradfield wrote: On 2013-01-13, Leslie Turriff jlturr...@centurytel.net wrote: I've been searching the web for information about how to type accented characters (French) using a US 104-key keyboard. I understand that a compose key is involved,

Re: OT: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
2013/1/13 Leslie Turriff jlturr...@centurytel.net I just found that out with regards to LibreOffice; and so far I haven't found anything in their docs that mentions it. I have successfully used the xmodmap method to map box characters onto the numeric keypad (which I

Re: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
2013/1/13 Alex Plantema alex.plant...@xs4all.nl When you only need some French diacrits like accents, diaereses, cedillas, the easiest way is probably the dead key method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Dead_keyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key with the US International keyboard driver