From b.gohla@gmx.de Thu Jan 17 08:24:36 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 17 Jan 2002 16:24:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 6685 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 16:24:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Jan 2002 16:24:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 16:24:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 23886 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jan 2002 16:24:33 -0000 Received: from b7a5d.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.93) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 16:24:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: umlauts (was: Re: timezones for talking and speling (was Re: [lojban] on the fone?)) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:32:46 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02011718324600.01010@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=36703491 X-Yahoo-Profile: badbirdde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 15:34, Invent Yourself wrote: > Macintoshes have always made it very easy to enter umlauts. It is very > hard to find a font that lacks the characters, and all applications > observe the same, standard key combinations for entering them. On Windows > and Linux, I have never been able to get anything but 7 bit characters of= f > the keyboard, and I'm sure every app has its own keyboard shortcuts for > them, as they reinvent their own shortcuts for everything else. well, using x window it is easy to type characters that are not on your=20 keyboeard. kcharselect for instance lets you select any letter in a font an= d=20 copy it to any x client via the clipboard. the bare console probably is=20 another matter. however being a unix user in germany i put together my own = x=20 keymap that is mostly the us keymap but has umlauts on otherwise unused key= s. - --=20 - -------------------- It said "Windows 95 or better", so I installed Linux. pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RwrDbBQ8OYNPSXYRAvlvAJ9zN4SrcMIFpDtnJHwMFzuM22kllQCeOlMt AmGEbhOh8EuXMRX2bkFC3Go=3D =3DQIpu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----