Special character composition

[Georges Giralt]

Hi !

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Georges Giralt wrote:
> 
>> Hi !
>> I'm looking at the way to compose special characters in Kde (like, for 
>> example, the Spanish inverted exclamation mark) and have this 
>> mechanism work for Kde applications (kmail for example) or non kde 
>> application like Mozilla, or Open Office.
>> How could I do that ? and how do I turn a key into "compose" ?
> 
> 
> In your case, you could just switch to the Spanish keyboard and type:
> 
And how do I do that ?  Please note that I won't know on which caps I've 
the inverted mark, as my layout is not Spanish.
>     ¿Que pasa?
> 
> But, it would be nice if there was a way to add special characters that 
> aren't on the keyboard.  Without having to resort to: KCharSelect.  I 
> would like if for math symbols.
Yes ! A table of composition, and an altGr or compose key to generate 
them ??
> 
> It doesn't matter if it is a KDE application if you are changing the 
> keyboard layout/keyboard action.  When you change the keyboard layout, 
> you automatically get the "compose" keys.
> 
I'm sure I'm not the first one to ask, and there is a solution, but 
which one and where to find it ? All my search have failed so far.

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