Typing Spanish (Accented) Characters In Kubuntu…
January 21st, 2009
Found out how to do it here, it’s pretty straightforward:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about865.html
- Open up kde control center. [ the k/s button on task bar], select control center.
- Select ‘Regional & Accessibility
- click on keyboard layout
- click on the ‘Xbd Options’ tab, then scroll down the list to: Compose key position. Make sure that Compose Key Position is checked. Now go down and check either right or left Win-key is compose. This will now enable functionality for the windows key, which otherwise isn’t used in linux/kde for much.
You have now enabled a key to control the creation of special characters, and you create those by doing the following:
Hit the windows key you selected, right or left one, one time, do not keep it depressed, then use the following combinations, after you release the windows key:
- ?? = ¿
- !! = ¡
- ‘e = é
- ‘a = á
- ‘i = í
- ‘o = ó
- ‘u = ú
- `a = à and so on…
- “u = ü
- << = «
- >> = »
- ^a = â
- ,c = ç
- ~n = ñ
- (c = ©
- (r = ®
There’s a big list of characters you can type here:
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/it/docs/intl-keyboard.html