Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Rubin Bennett
So... I probably should know this, but... In my last post, I used an accented character. I use KDE as my desktop and Evolution 2.10 for email, and I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out how to *type* that accented character from my laptop keyboard, and finally gave up. I ended up cheating

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Riggen
gnome has a character map program which allows one to view non-US characters and put them on the clipboard... Rob On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Rubin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... I probably should know this, but... In my last post, I used an accented character. I use KDE as my

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Josh Sled
Rubin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So... I probably should know this, but... In my last post, I used an accented character. I use KDE as my desktop and Evolution 2.10 for email, and I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out how to *type* that accented character from my laptop

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Rick White
--- Rob Riggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gnome has a character map program which allows one to view non-US characters and put them on the clipboard... Rob Unfortunately, I found the gnome character map difficult to fathom (until I realized Latin was my language). I wanted to use an n with a

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Tony Harris
Not positive if this is true for KDE as well, but on GNOME I have both the US and US-International keyboards configured, and activate the Gnome toolbar applet that lets me switch between them. Then when you want something like é you just type apostrophe followed by e and you get it. -- Tony

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Riggen
On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Rick White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I found the gnome character map difficult to fathom (until I realized Latin was my language). I wanted to use an n with a tilde to write the word Manana, or tomorrow, in Spanish. There were many variations of

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread John Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Tony Harris wrote: Not positive if this is true for KDE as well, but on GNOME I have both the US and US-International keyboards configured, and activate the Gnome toolbar applet that lets me switch between them. Then when you