Hi Dutch Kind; On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:35 +0100, Dutch Kind wrote: > > Thanks for responding Henri; > > > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:26 +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > > > >> 2007/2/23, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> [big snip] > Maybe I understand this wrong, but what is needed are accented > characters without typing all those numbers. There is an easy way, at > least for the keyboards I know. If you use the american layout keyboard > you can, in linux, select a sub version ot the keyboard, for example the > international or alt-international variant for an american keyboard has > the accented characters as dead keys, i.e. when you press them, nothing > happens until you type a next character. So if you want " you have to > type " followed by space, but if you want ö you just type " followed by > the o . The same for ' which can create the accented éáó , etc. Other > keyboards that work that way are for example the spanish keyboard. I use > linux with KDE and it works fine for me, having the american keyboard. > And living in Spain, I sometimes need the upside down question mark, so > I have the spanish keybaord installed and by just clicking on the icon > in the systray I switch to that one (or hit Ctrl-Alt-k) This works > system wide, for all applications, in xwindows. I assume in gnome as > well as in KDE. > > Dutch Kind
Yes, in fact, there is a Canadian keyboard. However, old habits die hard. I tried the Canadian board and spent most of my time back spacing. If I was typing bilingual responses in government or business or sharing my keyboard with a French Canadian spouse, I suppose I would get used to using it. But I am not. If was in some kind of production environment (office etc.) I would go on a search for exactly the right keyboard. But I am not. I just want to make my current setup do a couple of extra things. The accented characters are a side issue to me. The compose button works fine enough. I was just thinking that if I could solve the glyph problem, I could also tinker with accented characters -- fix the flow, as it were. The real problem is something that should be very easy -- assigning a unicode to a key or a modified key. What a user subsequently might want to do with that facility is a matter of preference. Each to his own. Just remembered something. In Window's equivalent of the 'Character Map' application it is possible (or used to be) to pick out a character from the chart and right on the gui assign a key combination. That is the kind of thing I am talking about. -- Regards Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
