Re: Typing accented characters

Frank W. Steiner wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:19:06 -0500, Dances With Crows wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:57:17 GMT, Frank W. Steiner staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
Using a US keyboard, how can one type characters like accented
letters, umlaut vowels, etc?

One uses one's Multi_key in combination with other characters and
letters.
Hold Multi_key , press ' , press a , get á (a with acute accent).
Multi_key + s + s = � (es-tset). Multi_key + a + a = å (a-ring).
Full list of everything you can type with the multi_key is in
/usr/lib/X11/locale/$LOCALE/Compose .

I like to map my right-hand Ctrl key to Multi_key with the following
command executed at X startup: "xmodmap -e 'keycode 109 = Multi_key'
".
There's an option for this in KDE: KDE Control Center->Regional and
Accessibility->Keyboard layout->XKB Options, look for "Compose key
position".

(You're probably going to say "This is confusing!", but remember that
MacOS < X had a *very* similar system for typing accented chars, and
people claim that MacOS < X had an über-awesome UI.)

NOTE: Your LANG environment variable must be set to something other
than
"C" for Multi_key to work properly. en_US or en_US.utf8 should work
fine for this.

Thanks for your answer. Shortly after posting my question I found out
about a program called setxkbmap that also seems to do the trick.

I had exactly this question recently and I found by setting the the
right CTRL key as 'compose' using control centre/setxbmap I had access
to all the foreign accents.
.

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