Accented characters

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Rosie
> From time to time I want to be able to type words and short passages in French, Italian, Polish and perhaps other languages.  To do this I need to be able to access characters with accents......

Your problem is perfectly understandable to me. In the following way I 
manage to catch more than 80% of the accented characters I often use via 
a simple, efficient key board approach. Go to K-MENU >> System settings 
 >> personal: 'regional language'. Now, go to 'keyboard lay-out'. Choose 
the following key board lay out: 'us English'. Then, choose the 
following LAY-OUT VARIANT: 'intl.'. So, you will get 'US International', 
the one with the so-called 'dead keys'. As a result, you can use the 
following keys to accent characters:
" (ë, ä, ö, ÿ, ü, ....).
' (é, á, ó, ć, ś, ....)
` (à, ù, è, ......)
~ (ñ, õ, .....)
Press on the accent key you need ONE time: by example ". Than, press on 
another key by means of which you want to create the accented character: 
by example, e, a, or whatever. As a result, you will get ë, ä,, etc.
If you press ", ´, ~, ...etc. two times each, you will get the ", ´, ~, 
...etc. So if you want to type 'She says that ...', you simply need to 
press ' two times in order to generate the quote and unquote signs.

> From time to time I want to be able to type words and short passages in French, Italian, Polish and perhaps other languages.  To do this I need to be able to access characters with accents. I find it unutterably tedious to go fishing for them in KCharSelect every time I want to use one of these characters,........
>   

If you follow the steps suggested above, the role of KCharSelect and 
other tedious, artificial methods will deminish considerably. By 
example, for French only the ç needs to be inserted from a character 
map. All the other accented signs can be taken by simply typing two 
digits each from the keyboard: é, è, à, etc. However, if someone has a 
better idea how to compose the ç, I would love to hear it......

I hope to have helped you sufficiently well.
Respectfully Yours,
Bas.