getting a special character

Kurt Granroth wrote:
>
> 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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cool - but on my system, it was dumpkeys --compose-only

In this case - and it worked in Netscape and in StarOffice (leaving me
somewhat convinced of universality),

[Control-Shift-T] and then ` and then e gave me è

Craig