[sylpheed:35389] Re: Typing in Alt characters

[Craig]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 00:16:38 +0200 romain scheck <scheck.r at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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

Yes, it helped. I run CentOS and added as active keyboard layouts the
choices "U.S. English Alternative international (former us_intl)" and
"U.S. English International (with dead keys)". With those I can type the
keystrokes you mentioned and get the same results.

Thanks,


Craig