On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:05:01AM +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I can't find this in the GNOME help, so I thought I'd try asking here. > > I want to be rename a file so it has an a-umlaut (lower case) in the > name. > > My LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. > > I don't know how to type the accented character.
One sure way is to copy-and-paste it from a file already containing the character. I keep around a copy of UnicodeData.txt with the literal UTF-8 character added to each line for exactly this purpose. Another method that might work is the ISO 14755 entry method, holding control and shift and typing the character number in hex. Not sure if GNOME terminal supports this or not. On the Linux console, if you have an appropriate keymap loaded, holding AltGr and typing the character number will do the same. Of course for characters that you want to enter often, all of these methods are rather inconvenient. For this purpose you can customize the X keyboard tables with xkb or xmodmap. I have xkb configured so that capslock toggles between two mappings. Then I run the command: setxkbmap us,xx with xx replaced with whatever secondary mapping I want to use. If you just want accented characters though you probably don't need a whole secondary mapping; just enabling 'dead keys' or setting up altgr+something to enter the characters you need is probably sufficient. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
