[SWLUG] Curse of the Circumfexes

[Peter Bradley]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:28, Gareth Bowker wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 10:46, Neil Jones wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > Is there any way to get Kmail to show a welsh  letter with a circumflex (to 
> > bach) over it properly. Someone on Clwb Malu Cachu who is using the welsh 
> > version of Linux has just raised the question. She is using Kmail like me.
> > 
> > I am still on the English version myself but Kmail seems to even show chinese 
> > characters in spam correctly why not Y^ and w^ etc.
> 
> If it's set up to use utf-8 (I don't use Kmail so I don't know how to do
> that) then it should "just work".
> 
> To input the letters, hold down Shift + Alt Gr, followed by the letter,
> followed by the accent. E.g. Shift + Alt Gr, followed by Y followed by ^
> produces Ŷ (which should come out as Y with a ^ above it).
> 
> Gareth

Hi Gareth,

I just tried that in Evolution, and it don't work at all.  I tried Shift
+ Alt Gr followed by 'y' then '^' and it just printed "  ^".  Am I
missing something?

Peter