Idea #2576: Support for typing in other languages easily

Written by plutoisaplanet the 2 Mar 08 at 20:45. Category: Office.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Everytime that I want to type something up in spanish, theres always some crazy hoops that i have to go through. Be it dead keys, or inserting a symbol every time i want a letter with an accent, it's all around pretty hard.

Windows had the alt + that made it really easy to do so. I think it would be really cool if Ubuntu had a way to type in stuff like that. I'm not sure exactly what the "official" name for this kind of thing is, but hopefully my idea makes sense.

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OliWare wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 10:14

knppix 3 already had this !

viraptor wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 13:20

Isn't Keyboard Layouts setting enough? It should have the same layouts as windows available. I've got alt+letter for polish layout (same combinations as in win.) by default and dead keys available anyways for other languages.

jiu wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 11:33

the keyboard layouts settings don't work well, it's a nightmare to get these kind of accents with dead keys: ê. It's still not working for me, this is exported from openoffice.

Őry Máté wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 20:49

You can use Ctrl-Shift-U in GTK applications.

Z_God wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 16:40

You need to make sure you have set up a compose key:

Add a line to the keyboard section of your xorg.conf like:
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

Then you can type é pressing in order:
compose (rwin)
'
e

This will also allow ç ş ß (s s) ı (i .) € (= C) ¿ (? ?) ± (+ -) ¥ (= Y) and many many more.

YannUbuntu wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 12:08

You can add the "Characters bar" by right-click on your main "Menu bar".

octathlon wrote on the 5 May 08 at 01:16

What do you suggest that is easier than typing ' followed by a to get á?

octathlon wrote on the 5 May 08 at 01:47

Also if you prefer, you can use the USA International (AltGr dead keys) layout to type them with Right-Alt key + the character.

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