Technical Question

[waitingman]

How does one put accent marks on letters (umlauts, cedilias, accents grave & acute etc...) for the plethora of foreign words I'd love to use in my entries, but can't, due to an Anglo-centric keyboard??

Comments

[unknownblogger.livejournal.com]

On Linux (or more generally, the X Window System) you just use the Compose key, which on a PC keyboard I usually set as Right Alt. Then Compose " a produces ä, Compose ' e produces é, etc. Schön. It's one of the things that I really miss when I have to work on Windows. I'm guessing you could develop a Windows input method that would do something like that, but I haven't come across it in my travels.