On Saturday 18 August 2007 21:01, Phill Atwood wrote: > This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me > to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into, > for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do > with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where > to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any help is > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Phill
I'm from the UK, and am using my qwerty keyboards. I use KDE, and the canadian keyboard layout works well for the French accents. To set up the canadian keyboard in KDE, go to: Control centre->Regional & Accessability->Keyboard Layout. Click on enable keyboard layouts, and select the ca one. Click on the add button, save,and it should be available on the panel. You can toggle between your normal keyboard, and the ca one. The main accented keys are on the right of the keyboard. é is left of right shift. One row above, and lower left to the enter key are à. and è. next row up, and again left to the enter key you find ç. One key left and you have a dead key ^. press once on this , and then the vowel key, and you have ê pour instance. sorry, but if you're using Gnome I've no idea how the keyboard layouts work. Nigel.
