This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me
to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into,
for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do
with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where
to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any is
appreciated.

Thanks,
Phill



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On Saturday 18 August 2007 21:01, Phill Atwood wrote:
> This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me
> to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into,
> for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do
> with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where
> to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Phill

I'm from the UK, and am using my qwerty keyboards. I use KDE, and the canadian
keyboard layout works well for the French accents.

To set up the canadian keyboard in KDE, go to:
Control centre->Regional & Accessability->Keyboard Layout.

Click on enable keyboard layouts, and select the ca one. Click on the add
button, save,and it should be available on the panel. You can toggle between
your normal keyboard, and the ca one.

The main accented keys are on the right of the keyboard. é is left of right
shift. One row above, and lower left to the enter key are Ã. and è. next row
up, and again left to the enter key you find ç. One key left and you have a
dead key ^. press once on this , and then the vowel key, and you have ê pour
instance.

sorry, but if you're using Gnome I've no idea how the keyboard layouts work.

Nigel.

On 08/18/2007 02:01 PM, Phill Atwood wrote:
> This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me
> to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into,
> for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do
> with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where
> to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Phill
>
>
>

Install the package doc-linux-text and read the file
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.gz

Also read the Debian Reference's section on localization:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...en.html#s-l10n

or,
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz (install
debian-reference-en first).

I'm using the "us" keyboard layout, but I enabled "dead" keys by using
xmodmap to map an unused key to the Compose (or Multi_key) function.

Now I press (<Compose> ` e) to get è, and I press (<Compose> " a) to get ä.

Note, I'm using Sarge and XFree86. I wouldn't think that Etch/Xorg would
be terribly different.


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On 08/18/2007 02:01 PM, Phill Atwood wrote:
> This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me
> to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into,
> for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do
> with locales and character sets, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to where
> to start. My locale is english-canada I believe. Any is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Phill
>
>
>

Install the package doc-linux-text and read the file
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.gz

Also read the Debian Reference's section on localization:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...en.html#s-l10n

or,
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz (install
debian-reference-en first).

I'm using the "us" keyboard layout, but I enabled "dead" keys by using
xmodmap to map an unused key to the Compose (or Multi_key) function.

Now I press (<Compose> ` e) to get è, and I press (<Compose> " a) to get ä.

Note, I'm using Sarge and XFree86. I wouldn't think that Etch/Xorg would
be terribly different.


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