Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

What about charmap(1), aka gucharmap and gnu-character-map ? Works for me, though tedious and slow, for most varieties of the Latin alphabet; but users who need to write continuous Norwegian (etc) text on English keyboards will not be happy . -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England

Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

I can type ö by pressing AltGr+[, then letting go, then pressing 'o'. If you press AltGr+[ twice then it will show you just the combining character it'll add, eg: ¨. There's lots of other combining and otherwise useful characters around that area of the keyboard you can use with AltGr or

[Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

Hi can anyone advise how I get foreign (Norwegian) variants of letters in UK linux? I need the o with two dots and the o with a line through it.  Of course it could be a limitation of my family history program (Gramps)  that it doesn't like  Alt 0248. Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Online,