getting a special character

On Tuesday 09 October 2001 07:31 pm, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> How can I get StarOffice to display a character in StarWord, StarCalc, etc
> that can make a word like "Saute" show an apostrophe above the "e"? If if
> cannot be done there, can I get a KDE program to get one up so that I can
> cut and paste it into StarOffic?

There are actually a couple of ways to do this. The most portable way is
to use the special "compose" key and the right key codes. To make an
accented e, you would do the following:

<ctrl>+<shift>+t e '

The CTRL+SHIFT+T is the "magic" sequence. It says that the next TWO
characters that you write will make up the special character. This works
in (at least) all KDE apps, StarOffice, and Netscape. It should also work
with all other Motif apps and Gtk/Gnome ones... but I don't have any more
of either to test with.

The best intro page I found on this during a VERY quick search with
google was this: http://www.zenez.com/tmp/scouw7faq/cache/256.html

You can see a list of all possible combinations using this command:
% dumpkeys --compose-keys
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