On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:04:24 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:52:59AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >     Same problem as you: accents aren't available on En keyboards (or by
> > tricks I ignore). I use to pick them from various documents with the mouse -
> > or use a Fr keyboard.

>
> Then you want a Compose key. On real keyboards, it's best to bind it to a
> totally unused thing like Menu, on laptops, a key combination (I think one
> is bound by default, can't check right now as virtualbox is kaput, too lazy
> to install a new one in qemu). There's even a bunch of implementations for
> Windows, one included in putty.
>
> Compose key includes, among others, combinations for all the accents/
> umlauts/etc which don't require memorization: you press Compose then the
> base letter then the given decoration:
> * Compose, a, ',' for ą
> * Compose, o, '"' for ö
> * Compose, e, "'" for é
> * Compose, a, '*' for å (ok, * is a bit unobvious)
> * Compose, o, '/' for ø
> * Compose, 1, 2 for ½
> and so on. No need to use copy&paste for decorated latin characters.

Another possibility which I use to get ₲, €, ß, and (Spanish) acute accented vowels on my French keyboard is to add the following to .bashrc:

xmodmap -e "keycode 66 ="
xmodmap -e "keycode 24 = a A a A aacute adiaeresis acircumflex adiaeresis a A acircumflex adiaeresis a A"
xmodmap -e "keycode 42 = g G g G U20B2 AE ae"
xmodmap -e "keycode 57 = n N n N U00F1 N notsign N n N notsign N"
xmodmap -e "keycode 31 = i I i I iacute idiaeresis icircumflex idiaeresis i I icircumflex idiaeresis i I"
xmodmap -e "keycode 32 = o O o O oacute odiaeresis ocircumflex odiaeresis o O ocircumflex odiaeresis o O"
xmodmap -e "keycode 39 = s S s S U00DF Oslash oslash Oslash s S oslash Oslash s S oslash Oslash"

then those letters I need come pressing AltGr and the relevant key.


Cheers,

Ron.
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