Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:29:53 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters Message-ID: <200212311429.53884.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212311646310.19068-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212311646310.19068-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:51 pm, John Bleichert wrote: > Hello All > > Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I > think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's > have said character? How about text editors like nedit? > > Hopefully not too, too offtopic. > Are you running any desktop at the time. For example, I have a us/es button on my status bar of KDE-3, which provides dead keys that let me type the acutes, the diaeresis(umlaut) keys, and others. The "'" key, for example, becomes a kind of sticky key and you type it and then the letter you want to be an acute. The :/; become the n with the tilde over it. There are others. In kword, you can also use the <alt>+keypad sequences such as <alt>+0228 is an umlaut e. I tried the keypad method in konsole mode and it didn't work. Switching is a little easier in Windows for me because pressing the left shift and alt key at the same time toggles the keyboard switch. I figure there is something similar for KDE but don't know what it is. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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