Re: special characters on keybord?

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04


Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:48:58 +0200

nosy wrote:

> Hi,
> I use 9.1 and KDE 3.2 with a normal keyboard but I need spanish or french
> special characters, sometimes.
> How can I get an 'e' with an accent ?
> In windows I pressed the accent key, immediately followed by the letter
> and it combined these two strokes to the desired letter.
> When I search the man pages and SuSE help, all I get is articles about
> (cups) printing.
>
> Any idea?
> Thank you

Yes, just switch to the relevant keyboard layout in the Control Center. I
use German and English (German keyboard, switching to English layout
sometimes for special English characters or ease of accessing {[]} etc.).

Control Center->Regional and Accessibility->Keyboard Layout.

Dave



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