Special characters

[Doug Purdy]

Le sam 20/10/2007 à 17:13, Anders Karlsson a écrit :
> Thus, Oliver Ruebenacker at Sat Oct 20 20:25:17 2007 inscribed:
> >      Dear friends,
> 
> Lo,
> 
> >   Is there a way to type special characters (such as umlauts) on a US
> > keyboard under Fedora?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I use the following keyboard setup, "setxkbmap -layout dvorak -model
> pc104 -option -option compose:caps". You can set this in Gnome in your
> keyboard preferences (it's the compose key you are after, and I've
> elected to use the most useless key on a keyboard ever, the Caps Lock
> key, as the compose key).
> 
> Once you have compose key working, you can do combinations like
> 'Compose " a' -> 'ä', 'Compose , c' -> 'ç' and 'Compose = C' for
> '€'. have a look through the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> file, as that will give you lots of ideas what you can Compose.

There is also the "dead keys" system. For French and Spanish accents I
use System / Hardware / Keyboard / English US International with dead
keys. Then it works much like Windows only better: you can even type
your umlaut in the terminal and the system doesn't change or become
unavailable depending on which application you are using as it does in
Windows.

The disadvantage is getting used to the keys being "dead." As you don't
use a compose key, nothing happens when you press a key that produces an
accented character such as the " key which is used to make the umlaut.
So to type "Gäste" I press the following keys: " [space] G " a s t e "
[space]. For some accents in French I still need the Alt Gr or left Alt
key, for example, to type c cedilla I hold down the left Alt key and
press the comma key, then release and press c at which point the c
cedilla appears.

Then as with any special character method in any operating system it is
common for me to make a few mistakes after switching computers or
operating systems.

Doug