On 4/11/07, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Manon Metten wrote: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > > Hi, > > I want to be able to insert accented chars, like àáäèéëìíïòóöùúü by > means of the keyboard. > I've googled and spent several hours trying to figure out how, but > with no result. > The above accented chars I've entered with KCharSelect but that's not > very convenient if you use them a lot. > I've read something about dead keys, but don't know how to use them. > > > > The settings in 'Control Center - Keyboard Layout' are: > > Keyboard model: Generic 104-key PC > Layout: US English > Keymap: us > Layout variant: default > > I've tried various settings, but with no result. > Although Dutch is my native language, I like US English to stay the > default language on my system. > I prefer eg. US 'Cancel' over NL 'Annuleren' or US 'File' over NL > 'Bestand' etc. > > > > /etc/locale.gen reads: > > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > > > > When I type locale in a console, the output is: > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > > Any help appreciated, Manon. > hi manon, if you are using KDE: do in a konsole : kcontrol go to Regional & Accessability and then to Keyboard Layout. enable keyboard layouts, and if you use an U.S English keyboard activitate with a mouse-click U.S. English down at the same column (kolom ) click on layout variant and change that variant into: intl hope this helps,, greetings, groet, steef
Hi Steef, I already tried this. It's not what I mean. Changing to 'intl' gives me access to only some accented chars but not by means of dead keys. On my old Amiga I was used to access an accented char by pressing a dead key and then the appropriate vowel. Eg: ALT-F + a = á; ALT-F + e = é; ALT-G + a = à; ALT-G + e = è; etc. The same applies to the other vowels and other accents. This of course only valid for the ASCII char set of which all accented chars range from 192 - 255. So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? Greetings, Manon.
