Special characters

Anders Karlsson anders at trudheim.co.uk
Sat Oct 20 21:13:09 UTC 2007


Thus, Oliver Ruebenacker at Sat Oct 20 20:25:17 2007 inscribed:
>      Dear friends,

Lo,

>   Is there a way to type special characters (such as umlauts) on a US
> keyboard under Fedora?

Yes.

I use the following keyboard setup, "setxkbmap -layout dvorak -model
pc104 -option -option compose:caps". You can set this in Gnome in your
keyboard preferences (it's the compose key you are after, and I've
elected to use the most useless key on a keyboard ever, the Caps Lock
key, as the compose key).

Once you have compose key working, you can do combinations like
'Compose " a' -> 'ä', 'Compose , c' -> 'ç' and 'Compose = C' for
'€'. have a look through the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
file, as that will give you lots of ideas what you can Compose.

HTH,

-- 
Anders Karlsson <anders at trudheim.co.uk>
All-Round Linux Tinkerer & RHCE




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