On Thursday 11 August 2005 07:29 am, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > [...] > > > Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an > > accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go > > into KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the > > Xkb Options tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the > > big > > list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented > > characters with key combos, e.g.: > > > > compose+slash, l = ł > > compose+single-quote, o = ó > > compose+semicolon, e = ę > > Thanks a lot Ian. I didn't have anything checked on the 'compose' key > option of the Xkb tab, but never had any problems using other layouts > with accented characters. e.g. I often use the spanish and french > layouts which I'm fairly familiar with, so to write é, I simply type > (assuming the keyboard itself has an english layout) the double quotes > followed immediately by the letter e. I guess using a 'compose' key > would help in cases where you're not familiar with a keyboard layout > (as in my current case!). But what do you do when a letter can have > more than one type of accent? I'd imagine you use your script below. > I found most of the combos out just by fooling around, i.e.:
compose+single-quote, e = é compose+backtick, e = è compose+double-quote, e = ë compose+tilde, e = ẽ compose+carat, e = ê The modifiers are pretty standard, i.e. compose+double-quote, some-letter will put umlauts over that character; same goes for the grave accents. > > ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter > > from KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it: > > The problem is that I can't even find the polish accented characters > in KCharSelect. I haven't looked at all the fonts, but doing that > everytime I need to find a character seems extremely inefficient to > me. Do you use KCharSelect in a better way? > I just visually scan the contents of the tables. Table 0 seems to have most of the accented Latin-1 characters. You may also be able to find a character by googling it's name on the site: fileformat.info. They have a map of all of Unicode, and you should be able to turn up what you're looking for. > Your script looks great for other cases where I /can/ find the > character! > It's not actually mine, I found it online somewhere. But you're welcome nonetheless.
