Easy umlauts?

[David A. Bandel]

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On Tue, 27 May 2003 14:51:47 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2003 06:04:53 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 26 May 2003 21:44:14 -0600
> > Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
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> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > I, too, have changed my XF86Config touse "us_intl", but I get
> > > nothing other than " and u when I try the sequence "u.
> 
> The character before the u is not a quote character. It is the umlaut
> character, reproduced here in living color:
> 
> 	"
> 
> The quote, on the other hand, is:
> 
> 	"
> 
> On my system, they look the same on the screen, but different on the
> keyboard. And the associated keys act different. If I press the umlaut
> key and then u, I get:
> 
> 	?
> 
> If I press the quote key I get what you get. It seems to be in all
> programs on KDE 2 (in this case, sylpheed and konsole have been
> checked).
> 
> What species of keyboard do you have? On mine, the umulat is on the
> same key as the caret and the tilde. I have a Swedish keyboard and ?
> is not a character elsewhere on the keyboard nor in the language. I
> can only get it with the two key presses.

Yow!  I have a standard 104 key US PC keyboard.  I have no umlaut key,
only the ".  My tilde and carat are on different keys (none of my keys
has three symbols, only two at most).

OK, if I press the double quote and a space, I get: ".
If I press the double quote twice in a row, I get:  ?. (notice the
difference?)
If I press the double quote and the u, then I get:  ?.

My keyboard section from XF86Config:
Section "Keyboard"
        Protocol        "Standard"
        XkbRules        "xfree86"
        XkbModel        "pc104"
        XkbLayout       "us_intl"
EndSection

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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