How to type accented characters

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Saturday, November 27th 2004, 4:17pm

I'm trying to do some work in OOo for Spanish class, but breaking out the character sheet gets to be a pain. How can I type the accented characters (áéíóú) and the ñ. In Windows, you can type [alt] and a combination of numbers (160, 168, etc.) to get characters of that sort. How can I replicate this on Linux?

-Brian

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cmbofh

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Saturday, November 27th 2004, 5:04pm

Re: How to type accented characters

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I'm trying to do some work in OOo for Spanish class, but breaking out the character sheet gets to be a pain. How can I type the accented characters (áéíóú) and the ñ. In Windows, you can type [alt] and a combination of numbers (160, 168, etc.) to get characters of that sort. How can I replicate this on Linux?

-Brian

I don't know if that [alt] key trick is possible. I'd try a keyboard layout with "dead keys" (you can configure that in the KDE control center). You can then type the accented chars as a sequence of accent and letter, for example

~ + n => ñ
' + a => á

If you need the accents themselves type them twice or as accent + SPACE

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vitaminb28

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 7:29pm

Which layouts have that option?

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cmbofh

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 7:54pm

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Which layouts have that option?

Most do. I suggest you just add the one for your country to the right window and try out the different options in the selector in the bottom right corner.

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vitaminb28

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 8:11pm

I selected 'Spanish' and 'sundeadkeys'. I have all of the accents working except the tilda'd n. Which key is for the tilda in the spanich layout?

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cmbofh

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 8:16pm

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I selected 'Spanish' and 'sundeadkeys'. I have all of the accents working except the tilda'd n. Which key is for the tilda in the spanich layout?

Sorry, no idea.

BTW: Have you noticed the keyboard switcher in the systray? If you have selected more than one layout in the KDE control center then you can switch between them with a single click.

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cmbofh

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Sunday, November 28th 2004, 8:25pm

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I selected 'Spanish' and 'sundeadkeys'. I have all of the accents working except the tilda'd n. Which key is for the tilda in the spanich layout?

I switched to the spanish layout, and I found the ñ on the key on the right of the letter "L".