[SWLUG] To Bach characters

[Neil Jones]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:58, Chris M. Jackson wrote:
> On 3/22/06, Neil Jones <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:24, Chris M. Jackson wrote:
> > > On 3/22/06, Neil Jones <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > Can anyone please tell me how to type the Welsh "to bach" characters
> > > > into my English language version of Open Office.
> > >
> > > You probably want the magic Compose key (typically Shift+AltGr).
> > > Pressing Compose-O-^ in sequence should do it in just about all X
> > > apps.  Press in sequence - there is no need to hold down the Compose
> > > chord.
> >
> > It works for aeiou but not w and y.
> 
> Your compose map probably doesn't include them.  You need to change
> your system locale to one which includes the characters (e.g. those
> with UTF-8 encodings, such as en_GB.utf8, or, if you're /really/
> desperate, ISO8859-14).  Failing that, the compose maps are hidden
> somewhere in /usr (grep for "<Multi_key>"), and you might be able to
> add it yourself to the compose map for the current locale (type
> "locale" at a shell to find out what it is).


Yes I get this output.

 locale
LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
LC_ALL=


BUT how do I change it?

Neil Jones
Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk