Colin Paul Adams wrote: > [..] I don't know how to type the accented character.[..]
The Compose key is very useful for occasional entry of non-ASCII characters; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key for a description. E.g. Compose=c becomes €, Compose"a becomes ä. Hundreds of such "compose sequences" are available; the wikipedia article links to a list. To try, e.g., the right "windows" key as the Compose key, type setxkbmap -option compose:rwin You make this permanent by means of an entry in the keyboard section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" You can also choose some other key to be the Compose, like lwin, menu, etc. Many other methods are available for entering non-ASCII Unicode (in all kinds of languages) on English keyboards, but I think the Compose method is the simplest for occasional use. Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
