Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
SUMMARY: This used to be easy. If I were merrily typing away and needed to mention my fiancée, I just hit compose+', then e, when I needed that fancy sixth letter. These days I'm at a loss.
I need to be able to input characters (on Linux, using X, with a US keyboard) beyond the standard 26 letters. For the moment, I mainly require the accented characters particular to French, as I am studying that language and attempting to converse with native French speakers online. My computer is pretty thoroughly set up for UTF-8 encoding: lang=en_US.UTF-8, my Terminal program (not to mention vim, mutt, and lynx) are happy displaying UTF-8 characters, I have a boatload of Unicode fonts for X and firefox is happily using them. What I cannot do is reliably input Unicode characters. I know what I'm asking for is not that unreasonable, as I used to be able to do it--but I set it up once, and didn't upgrade for a couple of years, and forgot, and now there is a new font system for X, there's Unicode everywhere, words words words. Some suggestions that are not helpful:
Compose-key configurations or dead-key setups are great. This should not be this difficult. thanks in advance---- |
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