[ubuntu-za] Accented characters in Afrikaans

[SecretCode]

On 30/04/2012 10:31, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> The latest full circle magazine finally answered some long standing 
> questions for me.  I thought I'd share it with those that are still 
> uninformed (like me).
>
> *1. Special characters on vowels.
> *Press <alt gr> with an accent key, lift hand, then press the vowel key.
> e.g. 'ä' = <alt gr><;> <a>
>
> It's also very easy to remember the accent key, because the key or 
> <shift> character for the key looks similar to the special character:
>
> ; or : --> ë    --> <alt gr>+<;> <e>
> ' or " --> é
> \ or | --> è
> 6 or ^ --> ê
>
> *2. Currency symbols
> *Not all currency symbols appear on all keyboards. <alt gr> has the 
> answer once more:
>
> <alt gr>+2   -->  ¥
> <alt gr>+3   -->  £
> <alt gr>+4   -->  $
> <alt gr>+5   -->  EUR
>
> Hope this helps someone else out there.
>
> Charl
>
>
Hmm. Some of us do not have AltGr keys. I'm sure there's a setting 
somewhere to treat Right-Alt as AltGr ...

but the real Linux solution is the COMPOSE KEY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
http://blog.cyberborean.org/2008/01/06/compose-key-magic
www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html

Not sure if a compose key is set by default. I set mine to the 'menu' 
key; right Ctrl is also popular.

Then you have *thousands* of fairly memorable key sequences for special 
characters, and you can add your own with .Xcompose.

compose ' e ... é
compose , c ... ç
compose o a ... å
compose L = ... £
compose c = ... EUR
compose y = ... ¥
compose 1 2 ... ½
etc

(NB with the compose key you press and lift the compose key before 
entering the sequence.)
Joe
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