[gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[list-catcher]

I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented
vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced to cut and
paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me
insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the
vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version?  Is there
another way to handle this?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[Daniel Pielmeier]

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list-catcher schrieb am 15.02.2009 00:10:
> I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented
> vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced to cut and
> paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me
> insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the
> vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version?  Is there
> another way to handle this?
> 

As XFCE is based on GTK+ you should be able to use this combination
CTRL+SHIFT+U+Hexcode [1].

You can release CTRL+SHIFT after typing U then type the hexcode and hit
Enter. After that the character appears. When holding CTRL+SHIFT then
typing U+Hexcode the character appears after releasing CTRL+SHIFT.

From [2]
N WITH TILDE, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER	00D1
N WITH TILDE, LATIN SMALL LETTER	00F1

CTRL+SHIFT+U+00D1 = Ñ
CTRL+SHIFT+U+00F1 = ñ

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input
[2] http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html

PS: Google is your friend

Regards,

Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[list-catcher]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:39:03 +0100
Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com> wrote:

> list-catcher schrieb am 15.02.2009 00:10:
> > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of
> > accented vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced
> > to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly
> > driving me insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key
> > along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented
> > version?  Is there another way to handle this?
> > 
> 
> As XFCE is based on GTK+ you should be able to use this combination
> CTRL+SHIFT+U+Hexcode [1].

I thought of this but it only works in some applications, ones that use
GTK. You also didn't read the whole question.  Nice try though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[Jake Todd]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:10:22 -0500
list-catcher <list-catcher@hellburner.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented
> vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced to cut and
> paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me
> insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the
> vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version?  Is there
> another way to handle this?
> 

xmodmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[list-catcher]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:41:31 -0500
Jake Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:10:22 -0500
> list-catcher <list-catcher@hellburner.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of
> > accented vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced
> > to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly
> > driving me insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key
> > along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented
> > version?  Is there another way to handle this?
> > 
> 
> xmodmap
> 

Now that I know about xmodmap I can google, thanks!

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/keyboard_us2es.txt


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Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Sun, February 15, 2009 12:10 am, list-catcher wrote:
>
> I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented
> vowels along with the ñ character.  Right now I'm forced to cut and
> paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me
> insane.  Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the
> vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version?  Is there
> another way to handle this?

I had a similar problem with my Chinese course until I came across "scim"

http://www.scim-im.org

As far as I can tell, it works with nearly all X-programs.
If you use KDE, also emerge 'skim', it integrates quite nicely.

It's in the default portage-tree.

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Joost