Re: accented Spanish characters in Linux

From: Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz_at_simpaticus.com)
Date: 12/05/03

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    At 00:24 11/5/2003, you wrote:

    >Hi everybody,
    > If you have a US English Keyboard and you want to typeset
    >those accented Spanish Characters on your amsn or Licq, how do you do
    >that?

    The technique that has worked well for me in several recent Red Hat Linux
    releases is to use a US ENGLISH keyboard (the standard keyboard US users
    have), and tell Red Hat Linux to use the "us-acentos" keyboard layout. On
    Red Hat releases that ask, I tell them to "enable dead keys."

    The result is that you type the apostrophe and e, and you get a Spanish
    accented e. You type the backtick and e, and you get the French e with
    "accent grave". You type the apostrophe and the c, you get the French and
    Portuguese cedilla. You type the double quote and the o, and you get a
    German umlaut. You type the ~ character and then an n, you get a Spanish ñ...

    This allows me (so far) to produce every accent I have ever needed, in any
    app I have used, for any language. Given these results, I hate the
    language-specific keyboards with "AltGr" keys and odd mappings; I always
    get notebooks and desktops with US English keyboards and use these settings. 

    -- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@simpaticus.com
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