[sylpheed:35390] Re: Typing in Alt characters

romain scheck scheck.r at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 22:35:54 JST 2012


I am glad it works for you now.

Have a good day

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:47:31 -0600
Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:

> 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


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