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by **werl** » Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:17:25

I'm running RH8 with KDE and am trying to figure out how I can type a
character with a grave over it (cut and pasted from another window:
). In MSWindows I could use the ALT key in combination with the
letters and it would work.
Does anyone know how to do this in Linux?
Thanks!

by **enri..** » Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:06:57

> I'm running RH8 with KDE and am trying to figure out how I can type a
> character with a grave over it (cut and pasted from another window:
> ). In MSWindows I could use the ALT key in combination with the
> letters and it would work.
> Does anyone know how to do this in Linux?
> Thanks!

You will have to enable iso-latin-1 or related to rread this message.

When I install RedHat I specify a Norwegian keyboard, and then I get
a couple of accent keys that act as dead keys. For instance, I have
the accent grave as shift-backslash, and I press shift-backslash,
release, press a, release, and get . Apparently nothing happens when
I press shift backslash, but then, on the next keypress it takes
effect. I do have some odd characters bound to AltGr + some other
character, for instance, AltGr+r gives ? (registered trademark).

Unfortumately I don't remember how all this is really configured,
i.e., what condig files and settings. I do remember (I had to
research it some years ago) that there were two distinct sets of
settings, one for the console, and one for the X server.

These things may have changed since then, currently on my RH-8.0 there
is something happening during boot when the script
/etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable is run.... mm, look at man loadkeys.

Regards, Enrique

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Creating grave accent in KDE?

Creating grave accent in KDE?

Creating grave accent in KDE?