[kde-doc-english] User guide.

[Antonio Salazar]

Maybe we should address in this somewhere the fact that certain accent
characters are impossible to create without setting an environment
variable. Namely, in my case, it is impossible to type greek accented
characters without setting LC_CTYPE="el_GR". Personally, I do this in
Xsession. Of course, the problem with this is that setting LC_CTYPE to
el_GR results in an inability to do latin accented characters. I
personally believe this is a huge oversight in KDE itself, but while
it's there, I think we should document how to get around it.
Antonio


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:16:06 +0100, Tom Albers <tomalbers at kde.nl> wrote:
> Op maandag 25 oktober 2004 22:24, schreef Lauri Watts:
> > On Monday 25 October 2004 19.52, Tom Albers wrote:
> > > I have some dutch documentation which I can translate about creating éëæß
> > > characters within KDE.
> > >
> > Yes, it is in fact useful, and something that is quite difficult for a lot
> > of people.
> 
> As promised, see the document below. Hope you can find a place to include it &
> it is not to late....
> 
> Toma
> 
> -------
> Source: http://www.kde.nl/doc/speciale-tekens/
> Original Author: Frank Mulder
> Modified and translated: Tom Albers
> ------
> 
> Using international characters within KDE.
> 
> Basically, there are two ways of entering international characters:
> 
> Without deadkeys:  The best known way is by using the KCharSelect applet. But
> that applet takes room in the panel and does not contain all characters
> possible. Besides that you have to switch between keyboard and mouse, which
> is not very convenient when typing an email.
> 
> With deadkeys: Typing international characters is a lot easier now, but it has
> the disadvantage that you have to type quotes twice to get a quote. Very
> inconvient when you are programming for example.
> 
> Both methods are not ideal. An other alternative is to use a Compose key. With
> this key you can make international characters using a special key, the
> Compose key. By pressing this key, you make the next key 'dead'. This way you
> have the advantage of 'Without deadkeys' (being able to type a quote without
> having to do that twice). A disadvantage is that you have to type three keys
> to type an international character. If you want to type a é, you have to hit
> the Compose key, ' and an e.
> 
> Setting up a Compose key.
> It is possible to set up a compose even without using KDE, because it is
> basically a X Window System setting, but KDE has provided a nice tool to set
> it up.
> 
> To set up a Compose key go to the Control Center, section Regional &
> Accessibility, Keyboard Layout. Switch to the Xkb Options tab. Scroll through
> the list and look for the section 'Compose key'. Now you can choose which key
> will function as Compose Key. The Menu key or Right Win key are good options
> to choose if you have them, because they generally are not used anywhere
> else. Do not forget to switch of the deadkeys if you had them enabled on the
> Layout tab.
> 
> Now you have set this up, you can start using it. Press the key you have
> assigned as Compose key, release it again, press on the key you want to have
> dead (quote for example), release it again, and press the character on which
> that deadkey has to go. So to get a ü, hit the Right Win key, hit the " and
> hit the u.
> 
> Here are some nice examples of what is possible:
> compose '"' 'u' to 'ü'
> compose '"' 'y' to 'ÿ'
> compose '(' 'c' to '©'
> compose '(' 'r' to '®'
> compose ',' 'C' to 'Ç'
> compose ',' 'E' to 'Ê'
> compose ',' 'G' to '«'
> compose ',' 'a' to '±'
> compose 's' 's' to 'ß'
> compose 'e' '=' to '€'
> compose '!' '!' to '¡'
> compose '^' 'N' to 'Ñ'
> compose '`' 'i' to 'ì'
> 
> A complete overview of all possible combinations is available in one of the
> keymaps which are installed on your local harddisk. If you use Debian, you
> can find them in /usr/share/keymaps/include and in SuSE in the
> folder /usr/share/kbs/include.
> 
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