Philip Webb wrote: > 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >>> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie >>> ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >>> but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. >>> KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose key, >>> but tests with 'left-control' & 'pause' in Konsole & Kate did nothing. >>> I tried in Kate with Luxi Mono & Courier(IBM), Konsole with LM & >>> Fixed(Misc). I don't have the KDE desktop pkgs installed, but use many >>> apps & it shouldn't make a difference. >>> Does anyone know if & how accented characters cb entered in KDE apps ? >> google is your friend. >> http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey > > Yes, I saw that, but ... > >> Typing Macrons, Umlauts, Accents, ... >> The compose key will be now whatever you have configured it to be, >> e. g. right logo. > > ... as I said above, it doesn't work. > > Thanks for trying, but please read the full msg before doing so (smile).
On a German keyboard layout I type AltGr+ü and then the letter: äöüïëÿ Cheers, Jörg
