Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html > > And that pointed me off to the very nicely written article: > > > http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/xorg-using-the-us-international-altgr-intl-variant-keyboard-layout/ > > That seemed to have been the best recommendation. So I went off and > set up: > > setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters > with the above. > > Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred > characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that > I should recommend to them?
I just have a Compose (AltGr) key set with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and I can type them by using the underscore as: ā = Compose _ a ē = Compose _ e ī = Compose _ i ō = Compose _ o ū = Compose _ u You can look up those compose combinations in the file /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zjsawfch.fsf@oak.localnet
