Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread John Palmer 
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 . 
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Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England
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Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread Andrew 

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 AltGr+Shift. Unlike 
any other key combination, you have to hold AltGr first, then Shift - 
you can't hold Shift first.


AltGr+; e = é
AltGr+Shift+0 = °

You can enter any Unicode code-point (in most programs) by pressing 
Ctrl+Shift+U then typing the Unicode code-point number in hex.


For Ø or ø you can use U+00D8 or U+00F8. (You don't need to type the 
leading zeros.)


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On 23/05/2020 17:11, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
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





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[Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset 

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


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