The Compose Key Masterclass
Håpla!
I am finally preparing to dump Windoze for good, and I figured I might find some help in here. For the last few months I've been delving through the world of live CDs and pretty much settled on Kubuntu as my distribution of choice; now I'm attempting to get to know it a bit better but (at the moment) only through the limited features of the 7.10 live CD.
One of my main concerns on entering the Linux world was how I would go about entering accented characters and other such symbols via Linux; up to now on Windoze 2000 I have been aided and abetted by the UK International Keyboard Layout, which uses an array of dead keys - hence no more tedious searching in the character map when I want to enter Norwegian words... I've only ever found something vaguely resembling the Windoze character map in Mandriva, and can find nothing at all in Kubuntu.
Very soon I was alerted to the Compose key which I now know how to set up and use, and I've compiled a list of all the combinations I've found, as well as everything the AltGr key produces.
Here is the list...
But there's still a few symbols where there appears to be neither access via AltGr, or a combination from the Compose key, and I've listed those at the bottom of the table. Can anyone fill me in on the missing combinations?
Furthermore, is there any way to enter Cyrillic characters other than how I've worked round it by installing a Russian keyboard layout?
And incidenatlly, which is the default Kubuntu font (i.e. the one I'm reading LJ in now)? It displays the characters a lot better than Mafia$oft's own Verdana which LJ defaults to...
EDIT: although I'm using a UK keyboard layout, the actual keystrokes shouldn't make any difference, right? I type compose, shift+2, a; Americans type compose, shift+apostrophe, a; we both see ä...
I am finally preparing to dump Windoze for good, and I figured I might find some help in here. For the last few months I've been delving through the world of live CDs and pretty much settled on Kubuntu as my distribution of choice; now I'm attempting to get to know it a bit better but (at the moment) only through the limited features of the 7.10 live CD.
One of my main concerns on entering the Linux world was how I would go about entering accented characters and other such symbols via Linux; up to now on Windoze 2000 I have been aided and abetted by the UK International Keyboard Layout, which uses an array of dead keys - hence no more tedious searching in the character map when I want to enter Norwegian words... I've only ever found something vaguely resembling the Windoze character map in Mandriva, and can find nothing at all in Kubuntu.
Very soon I was alerted to the Compose key which I now know how to set up and use, and I've compiled a list of all the combinations I've found, as well as everything the AltGr key produces.
Here is the list...
But there's still a few symbols where there appears to be neither access via AltGr, or a combination from the Compose key, and I've listed those at the bottom of the table. Can anyone fill me in on the missing combinations?
Furthermore, is there any way to enter Cyrillic characters other than how I've worked round it by installing a Russian keyboard layout?
And incidenatlly, which is the default Kubuntu font (i.e. the one I'm reading LJ in now)? It displays the characters a lot better than Mafia$oft's own Verdana which LJ defaults to...
EDIT: although I'm using a UK keyboard layout, the actual keystrokes shouldn't make any difference, right? I type compose, shift+2, a; Americans type compose, shift+apostrophe, a; we both see ä...
