Forester
03-06-2011, 03:16 PM
Hi,
Has anyone any experience of using the X window compose key mechanism to enter diacriticals (é ä usw), ligatures (æ, ß usw), currency symbols (£, €, ¥ usw) and other special characters (©, ½, ¿) under Knoppix ?
This has always worked nicely with Linux (well, X windows) until now. Is there some Knoppix specifics I should know about ? I'm using Knoppix 6.4.4, MAXI EN edition and, no I don't do anything daft like lang=uk when I start Knoppix.
I get the dead-key effect as expected but no special characters. The best I have got so far is <compose> 1 2 gives 1/2 instead of ½, which I can do without a compose key.
Any suggestions anyone ?
P.S. If you're using the DE edition, you might need to view this posting using UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.
Has anyone any experience of using the X window compose key mechanism to enter diacriticals (é ä usw), ligatures (æ, ß usw), currency symbols (£, €, ¥ usw) and other special characters (©, ½, ¿) under Knoppix ?
This has always worked nicely with Linux (well, X windows) until now. Is there some Knoppix specifics I should know about ? I'm using Knoppix 6.4.4, MAXI EN edition and, no I don't do anything daft like lang=uk when I start Knoppix.
I get the dead-key effect as expected but no special characters. The best I have got so far is <compose> 1 2 gives 1/2 instead of ½, which I can do without a compose key.
Any suggestions anyone ?
P.S. If you're using the DE edition, you might need to view this posting using UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.