Typing vowels with macrons

[Kent Frazier]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:27:26 +0100, Martijn van de Streek
<martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kent Frazier wrote:
> 
> > > The file you should be looking at is
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (you should also switch to
> > > a UTF-8 locale, otherwise the macrons won't be in your character set,
> > > and the UTF-8 compose map will not be used)
> >
> > I actually happened across that file somehow as well.  I am running
> > Hoary and using a UTF-8 locale, so that is not an issue.  The file had
> > a listing for the various macrons, but the options it listed were:
> >
> > <dead_macron> <A>     : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> > <Multi_key> <macron> <A>      : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> > <Multi_key> <underscore> <A>  : "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> >
> > I do not have a dead_macron key or a macron key on my (standard U.S.
> > 104-key) keyboard as far as I know.  When I use <Multi_key>
> > <underscore> <A>, I get ª instead of Ā.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Yes :)
> You're still using iso-8859-1. If you switch to UTF-8 completely (), your
> compose-settings will change to the UTF-8 one instead of the iso-8859-1
> one (also in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/).
> 
> The <Multi_key> is the Compose key. There's an explanation of how to
> switch to UTF-8 on the wiki.
> 
> Martijn
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I looked around the Wiki and even google searched (for
'site:ubuntu.com utf8 OR utf-8) and I couldn't find the entry you
refer to.  Could you post a link?  Thanks.

Kent