special characters, ie spanish accents

[Gerard Seibert]

On Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:39:14 PM Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:

|>Message: 38
|>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:37:50 -0800
|>From: Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
|>Subject: Re: special characters, ie spanish accents
|>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
|>Cc: chip <chip at wiegand.org>
|>Message-ID: <200403201637.50289.kstewart at owt.com>
|>Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
|>
|>On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:46 pm, chip wrote:
|>> How do I get the special characters to work, which work in MS Windoze
|>> using the conbination of right-alt+4digit code? I need to be able to
|>> use certain accents and characters found in spanish writing. I am
|>> using FBSD-5.1 with XFCE window manager.
|>> Thanks,
|>> Chip
|>>
|>
|>I use kde-3.2.1, which allows you to set the 
|>regional and accessability > keyboard layouts. I use the es Spanish 
|>option. You don't have to do the terrible alt+keypad sequence.. There 
|>are a lot of people that have used xdb to do the same thing. Do an 
|>archive search.
|>
|>BTW, you can do the same thing with W2K or XP. You choose the keyboard 
|>layout and you hold the right <alt><shift> down to switch. If you do a 
|>web search on keyboard layouts and go to the Microsoft site, you can 
|>grab images of the keyboard.
|>
|>Kent
|>
|>--- 
|>Kent Stewart
|>Richland, WA
|>
|>http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:43:35 AM


I have no intentions of starting an argument, however I do seriously
disagree with your assessment that using the <ALT>+<NUM-KEYBOARD>
sequence is terrible. I find it to be a very ingenious and quick way to
insert characters without going through he hassle of changing keyboard
assignments, etc. This becomes even more important when there is the
possibility that others may be using the same computer and are not
aware that changes have been made to the system.

Well that is my 2¢ {<alt><155>} worth.

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com