On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Lorry <fish at slava.net> wrote: > > 2) make special characters in my own emails > > in Linux. I know how to in my other operating system which I would > > prefer not to have to use. I've tried searching for information on > > this, but I always end up finding Linux information in various > > languages, rather than information on how to so this. Any info on this? > > Well, if you have a Windows keyboard, you can set up those extra buttons > to actually be somewhat useful. My right Windows button (pops up the > Start menu) is set up to act as a `compose' key. If I press it, then a > letter, and then another character, I can get certain international > characters to come up. Also, there are ways specific to various programs for getting special characters. For example to get a "ö" in LaTeX, use \"o. In Vim type Control-k the letter and then a punctuation - to get a "ç" type "Control-k c," or to get "é" type "Control-k e'". If the examples I have shown above show up as "?"s then you may have to fiddle with some environment variables. I have "LANG=en_US" and "LC_COLLATE=C" (which isn't necessary, but keeps the order for ls from being changed from the traditional order). -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org Cookies are tasty! |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://freesklyarov.org/