Typing oddball characters in kubuntu

[Art Alexion]

On Monday 22 January 2007 10:22, Donn wrote:
> > Use KCharSelector.  Then you can copy the oddball characters.
>
> Yes - I know about that one, the point of the thread is to get at ways to
> do it direct from the keyboard. I come up against the need for odd
> characters in names and some words quite often and finding them and
> copy/paste is too slow really.

I use compose_key.  I have set up the windows key as the compose_key.  More 
here
http://process-of-elimination.net/wiki/Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
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