Re: Linux newbie can't type "special characters" using KDE

From: Phil Powell (soazine_at_erols.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: 17 Mar 2004 06:52:12 -0800

It's much easier perhaps for those who grew up on Linux and not for
those who grew up on Windows, where can I find a guide to all
characters? I can do ä and ö but that is all but one letter in the
Swedish alphabet, can't do å

Thanx
Phil

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote in message news:<slrnc5f4s6.m51.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org>...
> On 16 Mar 2004 15:26:02 -0800, Phil Powell staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> > Using any of my text editing tools, AIM, Yahoo IM, ICQ, anything.. I
> > would like to know how to do ALT-0228 or ALT-0229 or ALT-0233 which I
> > am completely used to doing in Windows, but how do I do it in Linux?
>
> Go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , put
> slrnaj84ig.5i4.danceswithcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org into the
> "find the message with Message-ID" field, press the "search" button.
> The usual/standard way of doing this in X is to use the Multi_key, so
> Multi_key + " + e = ë , Multi_key + ' + a = á , Multi_key + , + c = ç ,
> etcetera. Much easier than remembering disconnected ALT codes for
> accented characters. HTH,