2007/2/19, John King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
M Henri Day wrote: <snip|
Thanks a lot, John ! I went to > System→Preferences→Keyboard→Layout Options, as per your > instructions, and found that under the last-named, I could > choose Compose key positions, with the following alternatives : > > - Right Alt is Compose > - Right Win-key is Compose > - Menu is Compose > - Right Ctrl is Compose > - Caps Lock is Compose > > As I never use the Right Win-key, the choice was obvious, and > while most of the symbols listed in ISO 8859-1 were already > available to me on my rather well-equipped keyboard, some, like > «ů» were not. Now, I think, I can write just about everything I > need to write in the European languages I use directly from my > keyboard - with one important exception : I can't compose a > caron or inverted circumflex or «háček» - «ˇ» - which I need > to write letters like «č»,«š», «ž» and «ř», used in certain > Slavic orthographies. If I could figure out how to compose this > symbol and add it to ordinary ASCII letters by using the > compose key, my joy would know no bounds - until I ran into > something else I needed to know.... > > Henri Here comes your boundless joy! For a full listing and more extensive explanation, see: http://www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/hints/Accented_Latin-UTF-8.txt The above article mentions that the writer had problems with the compose key generating some characters. I have the same problem with my cheap UK keyboard, so for haček/caron accented characters I use the AltGr+Shift combination. so:- AltGr+Shift+' followed by c = č AltGr+Shift+' followed by s = š See the above article for other combinations, though you can most likely guess them :-) Most of the initial part of the article deals with xterm keyboards. Provided I choose the basic variant of my UK keyboard, I get the right characters anyway in openoffice and other applications. However, I found changing the variant does muck them up, so you may have to check your keyboard settings if you don't get the correct output. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alas, on my Skandihoovian keyboard, these manipulations don't always work. If I hold down the combination «Alt Gr + Shift + '», I cannot then strike «c» and get «č», instead, after the first operation I get «×», so the combination leads to «×c». Changing my keyboard settings to English us/uk is not an option, as I should thereby immediately lose all the advantages my present setting (to Swedish) gives me. So can it go ! But I haven't given up - if anyone has another suggestion, I'm all ears (typing features).... Henri
