Chad & all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD experts, >> >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find >> a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special >> characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. >> >> http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp >> >> accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. I would like to do >> the same(have a special key combination) to get the characters in >> FreeBSD too, but googling have not found something that works. I even >> tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters >> to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. > > I wrote this about setting up a Compose key a while back: > > entering special characters in Xorg > http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 This looks like a good way of inputting the characters. I will give it a try and report back after Spring Break :)
Thank you all for your input. All of your comments are well taken and appreciated. Regards, Antonio > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
