Since you use GNOME, you can either enable a keyboard layout that has those characters (such as US International), http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_type_extended_characters or use compose sequences (no need to enable a special keyboard layout), http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_set_the_Compose_key_to_type_special_characters
Simos On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 13:03 -0400, William J Poser wrote: > For entering non-ascii characters, I use three techniques: > > (a) when the characters are part of a set used routinely, e.g. > the alphabet of French, install a keyboard map specifically > for that language (or, e.g., for ISO-8859-1, which includes it); > > (b) at the other extreme, when the character is some random character > for which I have a one time need, use gucharmap, or, what is > often quicker, look it up in my copy of the Unicode Consortium > file Nameslist.txt (http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt) > and enter the character via its hex code using any of several > methods depending on where I want to put it. > > (c) for the intermediate case, of characters that I use with some > frequency but that aren't part of some language's writing > system or where it isn't convenient to switch to a separate > keyboard, I use a character entry utility of my own, available > at: http://billposer.org/Software/CharEntry.html > This works something like gucharmap, but instead of presenting > all of Unicode it provides clickable charts of selected sets of > characters: (a) the consonants of the International Phonetic > Alphabet; (b) the IPA vowels; (c) a large set of roman letters with > diacritics; and (d) a set of combining diacritics. There is also > a widget that accepts hex codes. You can also define custom > clickable character charts by reading a definition from a simple > text file (basically each line consists of the hex code and > the gloss to appear in the tool tip). > > Bill > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ >
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