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Old 12-22-2003, 01:08 PM   #1
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How to type ¿ and ¡ in my keyboard?


Since the DOS era and on any windows I've used (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and XP) with various keyboards I have allways been able to type áéíóúü¿ and ¡ (it's not an i).

ALT-<ascii code> allways works.
I have a US-international keyboard. My Linux distro is installed in the english locale (it's RedHat 9) and I use Gnome 2.4.
I want to type 'a (the apostrophe and a vowel) to get á (an all the other vowels). In fact when I press the ' key the symbol does not appear on the screen until I press a vowel or space.
I also want to be able to type ¿ and ¡ in any way. On windows I can type ALT-? to get ¿ and ALT-! to get ¡.

Any ideas on how to get this working on linux?
Gnome has a special characters utility as a gnome-panel applet, but it's not suited to regular typing.
Can you type at least ALT-<ASCII code> in any way?

Thanks.

Last edited by fedetxf; 12-22-2003 at 01:11 PM.
 
Old 12-22-2003, 01:11 PM   #2
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What language is your system using? And what language is KDE/Gnome/your window manager using? It could be you just need to change your languages to Spanish and that would solve it.
 
Old 12-22-2003, 01:17 PM   #3
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Wouldn't that just change the language the menus and dialogs use?
When I installed RH I chose english as the language.

Are you sure it's a window manager issue? If so I'll ask gnome experts about it...
 
Old 12-22-2003, 01:25 PM   #4
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Well, since those symbols/letters aren't english, I would assume that you need to change the language of your keyboard or window manager.

Edit then again, this may help. Or even (because I found a long list of pages - this search.

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