[Linux-disciples] Accented characters in the terminal

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Under Windows (or maybe it's just MS Office), typing
> accented characters is easy:
> 
> * Ctrl+` [letter] = [letter] + accent grave
> * Ctrl+/ [letter] = [letter] + accent aigu
> * Ctrl+: [letter] = [letter] + diaeresis
> * Ctrl+, [letter] = [letter] + cedilla
> * etc.
> 
> This is the easiest alternative I've found under Linux, but
> it's still not as easy as Windows:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-January/063103.html
> 
> Rather than having to change your whole keyboard layout to
> alter the meaning of certain keys, shouldn't you be able to
> just preface them with Ctrl or some other such key?

This way is more flexible; you can adapt to what you need.

For what you want, I suggest picking 'English/European'; then, eg,
Menu+' then 'a' gives an accented 'a'.  ('Menu' is the key with a
little menu symbol, which you probably never use.)

(Actually, I use scim in order to get Chinese input, which includes
options like this; I'm not sure if English/European is in the standard
set of keyboard selections.)

Peace,
	Dylan