[sylpheed:35370] Re: Typing in Alt characters

[romain scheck]

Hello Graig,

To get Alt characters, one needs to set correctly the keyboard layout in the system preferences.
For me, the keyboard layout that works to get Alt characters is "us altgr-intl".
Then, the right Alt key(Alt_right) is the one that enables the Alt characters whereas the left Alt key(Alt_left) acts
like a regular Alt key. For example, to get "ê", I do, "Alt_right + ^ + e"

Hope it helps

On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 14:33:49 -0600
Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 00:31:35 +0200 romain scheck <scheck.r at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On my system(Xubuntu), I CAN type Alt characters in the compose window
> > for example and everywhere else in the application(addresses,
> > preferences, ...). I think this is handled by the system not by the
> > application itself. I have an english keyboard but I am french so I
> > need the feature all the time. Some Alt characters typed in sylpheed:
> > µéÈóö«äååééëþüüúíßðb®©œæñç¶ø«óö¹²³¤€^’
> 
> How do you type these Alt characters?
> 
> 
> Craig


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