Re: Accents

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:10, laokou wrote:
> > From: "Clint Jackson Baker"
> >
> > > Now that I've brought up the subject (not how I
> > > intended to, though), how do the rest of you send your
> > > e-mails with accent marks?  I read them just fine.
> >
> > Alt codes, my good man, Alt codes.
> >
> > é  is Alt 0233
> > ß is Alt 0223
> > ö is Alt 0246
> > å is Alt 0229
> >
> > etc.
> > (there's a Euro sign lurking in there somewhere, I think I found it
> > once, but don't remember).
>
> This only works if you use Windows, though, and not all of us use
> Windows (nor do we want to). In fact I spent most of my time on the
> list with a text-only terminal. I have a directory full of little
> files, each with one accented letter and called things like
> "e-acute", to insert as needed.
You could easily modify the keyboard layout if you have root. If you don't
I imagine {Except my apologies, I've forgotten the name of Irina's other
half} would, and could do it for you. Unless you already use AltGr for
something else.

Tristan

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