Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> * Christian Thalmann said on 2004-07-17 17:28:59 +0200
>
>>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@Y...> wrote:
>>
>>>Also, it's not an opinion. No-one wants to memorise
>>>alt+0309252094358204358 to be able to type é (and what if you're
>>>typing `élite' at the start of a sentence? Then you have to memorise
>>>alt+439269436898437509283475879, and remember that one's the
>>>capitalisation of the other), but most keyboards in at least
>>>Australia and the US lack another way of typing accents.
>
> Well we all now PCs and Windows sucks so no need to flog that
> particular dead horse ever again...
>
>>On my Mac, I can type umlauts with alt-u + vowel using the standard
>>American keyboard mapping...  I'm pretty stumped when I have to do it
>>on PC, or worse, a UNIX machine.
>
> If there's X Windows on that UNIX-machine you can remap that keyboard so
> completely that nobody but you will be able to use it. 'e' on Enter? No
> problem! Space means Delete? No problem :) To make it short: just about
> any character, with or without accents and diacritics, on any key - no
> problem. Frankly, it's one of the things I miss the most when using Some
> Other OS[tm]. Try xmodmap(1).
If anyone's interested, I made a keymap for Windows that IMO sucks less
than US-International: it's just like the US-ASCII keymap, but extended
characters (including dead keys for diacritics) are available through
the AltGr key. You can find it, along with instructions, on my
LiveJournal here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gwalla/39856.html

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