Re: How to enter accented UTF-8 character on GNOME terminal

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

> [..] I don't know how to type the accented character.[..]

The Compose key is very useful for occasional entry of non-ASCII
characters; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key for a
description. E.g. Compose=c becomes €, Compose"a becomes ä.
Hundreds of such "compose sequences" are available; the wikipedia
article links to a list.

To try, e.g., the right "windows" key as the Compose key, type
setxkbmap -option compose:rwin

You make this permanent by means of an entry in the keyboard
section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

You can also choose some other key to be the Compose, like lwin,
menu, etc.

Many other methods are available for entering non-ASCII Unicode
(in all kinds of languages) on English keyboards, but I think the
Compose method is the simplest for occasional use.

Regards, Jan



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