On Friday 27 February 2004 20:09, Michael Graham wrote: > Richard wrote: > > IIRC, Danes use æ where Swedes, Norwegians, etc. use ä. I expect > > Icelanders probably use æ as well. > > And in English: encyclopædia > > To get å you can use Multi_key a * (On my machine Multi_key = > Shift+AltGr) > > You can run > > xmodmap -pk | grep Multi_key > > To find out which key it is on your machine (as long as you can work out > which key produced the correct keycode) for instance, mine outputs > > 113 0xfe03 (ISO_Level3_Shift) 0xff20 (Multi_key) > > And I knew that ISO_Level3_Shift is fancy talk for AltGr. Which reminds > me Multi_key is sometimes called compose.
It depends on which keyboard you are using. In kde and I assume in other wms you can set up switchable language keyboards. I have just experimented with swedish and found å on windows-key+[ and æ on altgr+' . I haven't tried it yet on this machine (thinkpad). HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
