On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:36:53PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> Robert Rothenberg skribis 2006-12-14 20:01 (+0000):
> > I'm using a mere UK or US keyboard to type in exotic Roman characters used
> > for non-English languages.
> > Fine, there's Gnome's Character Map
>
> You could try the Multy_key functionality from Xkb. I have no idea in
> what hateful way you can graphically configure this in Gnome, but for me
> the following command suffices:
>
> xmodmap -e 'keycode 117 = Multi_key'
>
> This maps the windows "menu" key to the Multi_key, after which I can
> easily compose characters like ??, by guessing the things that the
> character looks like. In this case, I hit:
I'm with Juerd on this, with a good set of combining rules, you don't
even have to remember how to type stuff, most guesses are correct.
Examples: how would you type the Norweigan o with stroke? o + /
how would you type a german u umlaut? u + "
(u + : also works)
I've basically never used a symbol picker since I turned this on in
2000ish.
-josh
