[SWLUG] Welsh accents in Ubuntu

[Richard John]

Am I the only person who thought this was going to be about
yoooouu-bun-tooooo?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Marcus Davage <marcus.davage at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Smashing!
>
> Holding down AltGr and 2 (") gives then i, gives ï
> AltGr+2 then o = ö
> AltGr+6 then w = ŵ
> AltGr then ` then a gives à
> AltGr and a gives á
>
> That's got me going!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:02 +0000, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> > On 2 February 2010 15:51, Chris Jackson <chriscf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 2 February 2010 15:12,  <marcus.davage at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >> Not that I'm trying to get my Ubuntu to speak Wenglish, mind, look you
> now
> > >> boyo, but has anyone monkeyed around with xmodmap keymappings to get
> î, ô,
> > >> ê, â, ŵ, ŷ on their keyboard? My wife is struggling bigtime with my
> recent
> > >> family migration to Linux and Open Office, in that she's used to the
> > >> <shift><6> to get the circumflex in MS Word.
> > >
> > > Compose, >, w (in sequence, not held down) will typically do the
> > > trick, tidy.  On a PC keyboard, Compose is usually mapped either to
> > > AltGr or Shift+AltGr.  Truth be told, GNOME and KDE typically have a
> > > configuration option somewhere that will redefine these things.  There
> > > may be other ways to get those directly mapped to keyboard strokes.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, Chris your suggestion works for a e i o u but not w or y on my
> > Hardy installation.
> >
> > Only tried it in OOo though.
> >
> > Cofion,
> > Neil.
> >
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