From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 14:29:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7671737B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F368343EA9 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:29:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA25300; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:29:54 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kent Stewart To: John Bleichert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:29:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212311429.53884.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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=20 button on my status bar of KDE-3, which provides dead keys that let me=20 type the acutes, the diaeresis(umlaut) keys, and others. The "'" key,=20 for example, becomes a kind of sticky key and you type it and then the=20 letter you want to be an acute. The :/; become the n with the tilde=20 over it. There are others. In kword, you can also use the +keypad=20 sequences such as +0228 is an umlaut e. I tried the keypad method=20 in konsole mode and it didn't work. Switching is a little easier in Windows for me because pressing the left=20 shift and alt key at the same time toggles the keyboard switch. I=20 figure there is something similar for KDE but don't know what it is. Kent --=20 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 message