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Accented characters



Accented characters

I’m Italian and, me too, I need accented vowels for my language.
When my pc just went with English keyboard, I adopted the following way.

I edited the keyboard file to obtain the needed accented character, then I saved it under a different name (e. g. ita.kbd). Then loaded it.

What I wanted was:
ctrl-vowel to obtain vowel with grave accent: e. g. ctrl-e to have è;
alt-vowel to obtain vowel with acute accent: e. g. alt-e to have é;
The same plus ’shift’ for upper case; e. g.: ctrl-shift-e to have ’.

To do this, I modified some ’TABLE=’ parts. So, for example, in the section ’TABLE=CTRL’ I modified ’18=e’ to ’18=è’, and so on for every other vowels.
This way, it’s easy to remember what key combination is for the requested character.

Note. This approach don’t modify original use of keyboard, so you don’t need one keyboard file for French and another keyboard file for English.

Adriano Ortile