[ubuntu-uk] special characters for french in ubuntu and open-office

[Tony Arnold]

Stephen,

Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Wulfy wrote:
> | Try pressing <AltGR>; e which should give é.  If it does, the other
> | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
> 
> 
> This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so that I've been
> using Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu).
> 
> AltGr+e gives e
> Ctrl+Alt+e gives e

Did you type the semi-colon as well? Just to be clear, it's hold down
the AltGr, press the semi-colon, release and type the e.

> I have just tried Tony's "Compose key" approach which does actually work
> for me (thank you Tony!). It would be nice to get AltGr working for the
> more common accents but "Compose" is clearly more robust.

You are welcome.

Regards,
Tony.
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