From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 22:52:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 80BD716A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from tpa6.isomedia.com (outgoing-mail.isomedia.com [66.114.158.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CC743D1D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tpa6.isomedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904471CB704 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from tpa6.isomedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tpa6.isomedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23564-07 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by tpa6.isomedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124EB1CBFB7 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AF4B76F600BA; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:55:07 -0800 Message-ID: <405FDFF5.5060604@wiegand.org> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:57:57 -0800 From: chip User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at isomedia.com Subject: Re: special characters, ie spanish accents X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:52:25 -0000 Thanks for the tip. I just gave that a try and it works fine, a little cumbersome though. But I'm sure I can get used to it. :) -- Chip On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, david wrote: > This may be of limited use to you, but the vim editor has this ability > built-in (if compiled that way). To see what's available, start a vim > session and type ':help digraphs'. > -- > David Fleck > david.fleck@mchsi.com On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, chip wrote: >> How do I get the special characters to work, which work in MS Windoze >> using the conbination of right-alt+4digit code? I need to be able to >>use >> certain accents and characters found in spanish writing. I am using >> FBSD-5.1 with XFCE window manager.