[Nottingham] Dodgy characters

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:49:59PM +0100, Michael Leuty wrote:
> To do this proper, like, I néêd tò emplöy dòdgy cháràctêrs with extra 
> bits on the top.
> Using the gb-uk keyboard layout under KDE I can achieve this by holding 
> down <Alt Gr> and pressing ;'# or [ as dead keys, which when followed 
> by a vowel give áâàä respectively. And ; gives ç with c.
> Unfortunately I can't get this neat trick to work under Gnome. Does 
> anyone know how?

The standard way is to set a key as a Compose key and it'll work for all
X apps.

I do this in my console keymap so it will even work when I'm at a
standard VT.

It's described under Compose Key at
http://the.earth.li/~huggie/cgi-bin/moin/LinuxCompTips

On there you'll also see a way to do it just for X with xmodmap under
Compose key part deux.


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