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16 Oct 14
24 Oct 14
Originally posted by DeepThoughtI guess we also need to be careful not to eat fruit that has been nibbled by fruit bats.
I misremembered where you were from. If they migrate as far as DR Congo then your sister needs to be very careful when handling them. Possibly the Ebola belt has more to do with whether they are regarded as edible or not.
I use Linux out of a general preference for UNIX systems. Windows is this clunky pain that goes wrong over time.
The techniques I listed for accents should work equally well on Linux.
For more information on KazetNagorra's tip see this article:
http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/dia_ubuntu.htm
Note that it doesn't matter that much what actual physical keyboard you have, but rather what you tell your computer you have. Although if you do use the US International layout you may find what you get doesn't always match what is on your keys.
24 Oct 14
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Originally posted by twhiteheadNo, the list of keystrokes in the document from your earlier post didn't work either - attempting Alt + 0222 just switched browser tab. However, as a result I found that "Alt Gr" has a different effect from "Alt" and gives a collection of extra symbols, None of which are useful for French words, but I can now produce this set: "¹²³€½¾ŧ←↓→øþæßðđŋħł«»¢“”nµ" which is nice - I can write in Icelandic and Danish, but not French.
I guess we also need to be careful not to eat fruit that has been nibbled by fruit bats.
[b]I use Linux out of a general preference for UNIX systems. Windows is this clunky pain that goes wrong over time.
The techniques I listed for accents should work equally well on Linux.
For more information on KazetNagorra's tip see this article:
http:/ ...[text shortened]... the US International layout you may find what you get doesn't always match what is on your keys.[/b]
Edit: Reading the article you posted in the second post gives me the relevant clue, I'm writing on a notebook and there are no dead keys - I can live without accents, but the extra symbols I do have are handy. þanks for the help.
Edit²: Aha Alt GR + ~ and then a gives à so I can do it after all.
24 Oct 14
Originally posted by DeepThoughtI learnt about it in the old days when it was built into the BIOS and was practically independent of the OS. However I see from Wikipedia that it is now handled by the OS and Linux does not implement it, so I am not sure how you are getting characters. Maybe the bios does still do it but not with the same character set as Windows.
No, the list of keystrokes in the document from your earlier post didn't work either - attempting Alt + 0222 just switched browser tab. However, as a result I found that "Alt Gr" has a different effect from "Alt" and gives a collection of extra symbols, None of which are useful for French words, but I can now produce this set: "¹²³€½¾ŧ←↓→øþæßðđŋħł«»¢“”nµ" which is nice - I can write in Icelandic and Danish, but not French.
If you want to explore more try these pages:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/32764/using-alt-keycode-for-accents
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
24 Oct 14
Originally posted by twhiteheadLinux proper, in other words the kernel, wouldn't do that, that's a problem for the user space parts of the operating system. So it depends on the distribution.
I learnt about it in the old days when it was built into the BIOS and was practically independent of the OS. However I see from Wikipedia that it is now handled by the OS and Linux does not implement it, so I am not sure how you are getting characters. Maybe the bios does still do it but not with the same character set as Windows.
If you want to explor ...[text shortened]... .com/questions/32764/using-alt-keycode-for-accents
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
05 Nov 14
Originally posted by DeepThoughtI have grown accustomed to setting my keyboard settings to US international even when I have a keyboard with a different layout (the button will then just do something other than what the key itself says on the keyboard). I have to type in at least three different languages with dozens of different diacritics, so it would be time-consuming to use Alt-+ combinations every time.
It's probably a British keyboard layout. 'a didn't work, neither did `a. Thanks anyway.
05 Nov 14
Originally posted by KazetNagorraI read a story from the 80's where a systems administrator put in a new terminal and to check it worked tried to log into the system, which he did successfully. So he stood up, and to check again tried to log in; the log in failed. So he sat down again and logged in again. Whenever he was standing he'd fail to log in and whenever he was sat down he managed to log in. It turned out that two of the keys on the keyboard where switched round. When he was sat down he'd touch type and not be looking at the keyboard. When he was stood up he'd be jabbing down with his fingers and looking at the keyboard. That was why the standing log in failed.
I have grown accustomed to setting my keyboard settings to US international even when I have a keyboard with a different layout (the button will then just do something other than what the key itself says on the keyboard). I have to type in at least three different languages with dozens of different diacritics, so it would be time-consuming to use Alt-+ combinations every time.