G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
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.
Thanks for this too.
JimW
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