[clug-talk] International Characters on Linux

[Andrew Graupe]

I know I'm not supposed to give stories of triumphs on the list, but 
this is so frustrating to find answers to that I thought I'd make an 
exception.  Plus, I figure that, this being an officially bilingual 
nation, some people might need to type accented characters at some 
point.  I, myself, am just trying to learn Spanish.  Note that I haven't 
attempted to get accents to work in the terminal (other than xterm).  So 
here goes:

In your xorg.conf (or the XF86Config), add the following line in the 
keyboard section:

Option "XKBOptions" "compose:ralt"
IMPORTANT: If you have other XKBOptions, add this one to it with a comma 
(ie "grp:shift_toggle,compose:ralt").  This was my main problem.  Now 
international characters can be composed like this:

RightAlt+'+e gives �
RightAlt+`+e gives �
RightAlt+"+e gives �
RightAlt+^+e gives �
RightAlt+?+? gives �
RightAlt+!+! gives �
RightAlt+s+s gives �
Note that I am not sure how to type Eastern European characters at this 
point, nor will I attempt to find out.  This is, of course, in lieu of 
using a different keyboard layout altogether, which would probably work too.

Sorry if this is considered noise.
Regards,
Andrew
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