Re: Special characters in kmail

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: 17 Mar 2005 15:02:25 GMT

On 17 Mar 2005 05:44:43 -0800, keith_rhodes@yahoo.com staggered into the
Black Sun and said:

Include context when you post to Usenet. I know that @#$%ing Google
Groups Beta^WAlpha doesn't make that easy, so get a Real Newsreader and
you'll have a better Usenet experience. Context restored:

>>I would like to know how to enter special characters (like accented
>>vowels, pound symbol, euro symbol, etc.) in kmail, when composing a
>>message, using a standard US keyboard. I know that Thunderbird allows
>>to enter such characters by typing a character symbol, while pressing
>>the control and shift keys at the same time. For instance, the pound
>>sign £ is obtained with ctrl + shift + A + 3.

This has got to be a Thunderbird-specific thing, since I can't recall
ever hearing anything about this.

> Hmm... ctrl + shift + A + 3 doesn't work for me. I use composed
> characters all the time, for typing in French, German and Norwegian.
> e.g. Compose key followed by apostrophe followed by e gives é

Yep, that's how you're supposed to do it in X.

> I don't think it's a problem with kmail, but rather to do with your
> keyboard configuration. You need to map the compose key to one of the
> physical keys on your keyboard.

Like so:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 109 = Multi_key'

...maps keycode 109 (usually the right-hand Ctrl key) to Multi_key. I
have a shell script that does this and a few other xmodmap commands in
~/.kde/Autostart/ . Then, if LANG was set to something other than "C"
when X was started, you can use the key mappings defined in
/usr/lib/X11/locale/$LOCALE-NAME/Compose to do stuff. The logic is
pretty simple and similar to the way MacOS < X did things for accents on
characters. Things like £ and ¶ are a little weird, but you'll figure
them out pretty quickly. Check groups.google, comp.os.linux.x, keyword
Multi_key for a lot more on this topic. HTH, 

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