getting a special character

[Rick Rosinski]

It didn't work (the ctrl+shft+T then ' then e (and just e).  But that's O.K.  
I got it from the only place where I really need it for now - StarOffice's 
Insert -> special character

Thanks everybody!

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 06:00 am, you wrote:
> 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
> > --
>
> -----------------
> 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
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