On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose" > key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out > of something that's there already, like the right ctrl key, or the right > Microsoft key, which is seldom used even in Windows. This is too > detailed to get into here--you need to do a bit of Googling. Basically, > it allows you to hit (for example) rt ctrl, then, quickly, two keys which > intuitively make the foreign character. Thus the ñ can be made by > rt-ctrl, the n then ~. Ä by rt-ctrl, then A then ". The French ç by > rt-ctrl then c then , and you can make ß, the German ess-tset character > by rt-ctrl ss. Similarly the ¢ sign with / and c, the € with = and e, and > on and on. (The order of the 2 keypresses is not important.) The exact > same arrangement works in Windows and Linux, but I understand that > Macs have a somewhat different setup. You will have to make your > compose key in each operating system you use--if you have 2 Linuxes > dual booting, you'll have to do it twice, etc. The arrangement to get > the characters in Windows is from a tsr program called All-Chars. Isn't <CTRL-.> a compose key by default? It works for me and I'm sure I never set it. Some programs may also have their own compose keys - <CTRL-k> in vim, for example.
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