Jim Wagner wrote: > This is interesting. I'm using Mandrake Linux 10.0, and the only way I > can get special characters in is by the Insert Special Character process. > > the Ctrl-Shift-hexcode just gives me nothing. Or have I missed > something. Or is this a capability unavailable in my version of Linux?
Unices (including Linux, of course) have much better way then Windowese Alt+num, which is unfortunately pretty poorly documented on Linux. What is your distribution? You have to redefine some of your keys (I vote for CapsLock, but you can decide something else) as Compose key (in KDE, go to Control Center/Local settings/Keyboard Layout/Xkb settings -- or something like that, I am backtranslating from Czech -- my "command" line reads: "setxkbmap -option compose:caps,grp_led:scroll,grp:shift_toggle") and then you just have to learn all the combinations which make special characters. More information is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key (of course) and http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=19840 and I will upload my internal list of _some_ combinations on http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/progs/scripts/compose-keys.txt and full list is in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Be also aware that you have to have UTF-8 locale (like mine cs_CZ.UTF-8). Best, Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. -- Thomas Brackett Reed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
