The keyboard maps don't work on my system; alt-v just gives me v, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, der.hans wrote: > Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Oliver Elphick so: > > > Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u " > > > > :dig shows all currently-defined digraphs. > > Oooh. Most cool! So glad I've switched to vim for mail :). > > If not using vim, then there's also keyboard maps ( I think they're due to > dead keys ). <alt>-v maps to ö, <alt>-d maps to ä, <alt>-\ maps to Ü. Don't > know why that one goes to capital. Shift reverses case for each of those. > <alt>-_ maps to ß. That's <alt>-<shift>--. I don't know how to find out what > the mapping is besides just trying everything. > > For the final desperate ploy open up a web browser to a german web page and > cut and paste the chars. I used to keep all the German chars at the bottom > of my home page for that method when I got stuck on someone else's box. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com > # Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important > # stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds > >
