[desktop-discuss] special characters in Gnome

[Sebastien Roy]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:27 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:56:44 -0400
> Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
> > But I need access to special characters like é, á, è, etc (which had
> > to use "Latin" input mode to type in to this email message).
> 
> That is not  Gnome issue but is handled by Xorg.
> Don't you have some kind of dead key toggle?
> For me it's the key next to left-ctrl.

Ah, you're correct, the trick is finding the right key.  For my current
keyboard, it appears to be the key next to right-ctrl.  I had been using
a different keyboard for some time, and on that one, it was the
"Windows" key next to left-ctrl.  Since that key wasn't working on this
keyboard, I was left with the impression that the toggle wasn't working
at all.  Sigh.

Thanks!
-Seb