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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:09:29
Message-Id: 6588154.FQ9mZxVFXD@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps by Philip Webb
1 Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 07:44:37 schrieb Philip Webb:
2 > 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb:
4 > >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë
5 > >> .
6 > >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well,
7 > >> but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute.
8 > >> KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose key,
9 > >> but tests with 'left-control' & 'pause' in Konsole & Kate did nothing.
10 > >> I tried in Kate with Luxi Mono & Courier(IBM), Konsole with LM &
11 > >> Fixed(Misc). I don't have the KDE desktop pkgs installed, but use many
12 > >> apps
13 > >> & it shouldn't make a difference.
14 > >> Does anyone know if & how accented characters cb entered in KDE apps ?
15 > >
16 > > google is your friend.
17 > > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey
18 >
19 > Yes, I saw that, but ...
20 >
21 > > Typing Macrons, Umlauts, Accents, ...
22 > > The compose key will be now whatever you have configured it to be,
23 > > e. g. right logo.
24 >
25 > ... as I said above, it doesn't work.
26 >
27 > Thanks for trying, but please read the full msg before doing so (smile).
28
29 well, worked here.. do you have a unicode enabled system? fonts?
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