Re: Gnome's Character Map

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:36:53PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> Robert Rothenberg skribis 2006-12-14 20:01 (+0000):
> > I'm using a mere UK or US keyboard to type in exotic Roman characters used
> > for non-English languages.
> > Fine, there's Gnome's Character Map
> 
> You could try the Multy_key functionality from Xkb. I have no idea in
> what hateful way you can graphically configure this in Gnome, but for me
> the following command suffices:
> 
>     xmodmap -e 'keycode 117 = Multi_key'
> 
> This maps the windows "menu" key to the Multi_key, after which I can
> easily compose characters like ??, by guessing the things that the
> character looks like. In this case, I hit:

I'm with Juerd on this, with a good set of combining rules, you don't
even have to remember how to type stuff, most guesses are correct.  

Examples: how would you type the Norweigan o with stroke?  o + / 
          how would you type a german u umlaut? u + "  
	                                       (u + : also works)

I've basically never used a symbol picker since I turned this on in
2000ish.

-josh

• Re: Gnome's Character Map Juerd 20:36 on 14 Dec 2006
  • jrodman 01:12 on 15 Dec 2006
  • [Not OT]: the actual source of hate (was Re: Gnome's Character Map) Robert Rothenberg 10:07 on 15 Dec 2006
• Re: Gnome's Character Map peter (Peter da Silva) 20:45 on 14 Dec 2006
• OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map) A. Pagaltzis 23:32 on 14 Dec 2006
  • Re: OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map) Aaron Crane 00:33 on 15 Dec 2006
    • Earle Martin 13:57 on 15 Dec 2006
      • too deep to show
• H.Merijn Brand 14:57 on 15 Dec 2006
  • Aaron Crane 15:07 on 15 Dec 2006

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