[TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

[Andrew Perrin]

The keyboard maps don't work on my system; alt-v just gives me v, etc.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, der.hans wrote:

> Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Oliver Elphick so:
> 
> > Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u "
> > 
> > :dig shows all currently-defined digraphs.
> 
> Oooh. Most cool! So glad I've switched to vim for mail :).
> 
> If not using vim, then there's also keyboard maps ( I think they're due to
> dead keys ). <alt>-v maps to ö, <alt>-d maps to ä, <alt>-\ maps to Ü. Don't
> know why that one goes to capital. Shift reverses case for each of those.
> <alt>-_ maps to ß. That's <alt>-<shift>--. I don't know how to find out what
> the mapping is besides just trying everything.
> 
> For the final desperate ploy open up a web browser to a german web page and
> cut and paste the chars. I used to keep all the German chars at the bottom
> of my home page for that method when I got stuck on someone else's box.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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