On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 20:59 -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > 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). >
I think this is very similar to http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/Howto_special_char.sxw Check it out for possible translation to Czech. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
