Putting a unicode character into a terminal window (or even into OOo)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:41 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under Worm, if I press alt-132 I end up with an umlaut a. This doesn't
> work under OOo 3 or in a terminal window. How can I get the same result
> under Linux?

I use dead keys. I have my keyboard set to "US International" (under
KDE) and get ä by typing "a (and I got the latter by typing "<space>a).

> I should know this, but for some reason....
> 
> My system is set as UTF-en_GB.

Mine is en_US.UTF-8.

poc