On 28-Apr-04 Syd Hancock wrote:
What is the easiest way to get accented characters, specifically French, in apps running under KDE?
In Open Office I can access them from Insert->Special Character but it is a bit long-winded. No idea how to get them in things like Kmail.
Is there an equivalent of ALT+NumericKeypad codes, for example?
I think this generally depends on which application you are running, independently of whether you are using KDE (e.g. you can run kmail when not in KDE, for example on a remote machine using a different WM). A couple of examples:
1. Vim. This has a "digraph" option which can be switched on or switched off. When editing a file using vim, typing ^K (Ctrl-K) followed by two further keys gives you a character in the upper ASCII range of iso-8859-1. E.g. ^K-a-' gives you á (a-acute), ^K-c-, gives you ç (c-cedilla) and so on; ^K-1-2 gives you the "half": ½ . With vim in command mode, type ":digraph" to see what the letter-pairs are (sometimes not what you'd expect, e.g. you may find that a-circumflex is entered by ^K-a-^ or ^K-a-> ).
2. The mailer which I use (XFMail) has a similar mechanism only it uses ^D (as employed for the above special characters) instead of ^K.
I've just had a look at kmail (old version, which I don't use) and there doesn't seem to be such a mechanism available in this version though I can't be sure.
Sorry I can't help more. Agreed that "Insert->Special Character" is a time-consuming pain! (Maybe you can set up "keyboard short-cuts" though?)
Best wishes, Ted.
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