[AuckLUG] How to type Non English charactors in Mandriva?

[Daniel Pittman]

josephhenryblack <josephhenryblack at yahoo.co.nz> writes:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> Ah, so Bølge?  For me, not so hard.  I have a compose key mapped on my
>> keyboard (in place of right-alt) and can use the sequence you
>> illustrated above. :)
>>
>> [...]
>>
> ah. For Mandriva the compose key setting is under system, configuration,
> kde, accessibility, keyboard layout. After enabling it, now pressing the
> key I chose and then typing /o gives ø

Yup.  The standard ISO8859-1 compose map covers pretty much all the
standard characters in the most obvious transliterations, usually.

Reading this file should fill out the details, although you may need to
vary it for your own locale:

    /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

> I havn't yet found out how to do x^2 yet, but that is for another
> day. And installing a charactor map has given me another trick up my
> sleeve.

That tells me that your options are:

<dead_circumflex> <2>                   : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <2>           : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO
<dead_circumflex> <KP_Space>            : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <KP_Space>    : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO
<dead_circumflex> <KP_2>                : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <KP_2>        : "²"   U00B2 # SUPERSCRIPT TWO


Multi_key 2 ^ works for me under XEmacs, which also does text processing
of its own.

Regards,
        Daniel

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