Howto type International characters on a US keyboard

[Triarius Fidelis]

http://process-of-elimination.net/wiki/Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System

This is one of the most useful things I've found in a while. I don't know how I didn't find it earlier. This enables you to easily type things like éen, Khazad-dûm, Mikael Åkerfeldt, hwæt, Tromsø,  etc...without having the memorize a number for every special character (à la 'Doze) or looking it up in a character map program.

For some reason, I can't get Vietnamese characters to enter, but still incredibly useful.

Edit: It would appear that Gtk uses its own built-in compose sequences with the Multi_key. You have to set the input method module to XIM to change the default behavior, which can be done with export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim.

A little old, but see also: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/26/210214

[Pita]

Not having looked yet at the mentioned website I just want to mention that I am using xterm to create up to 75 additional characters on a US set keyboard using the alt and alt-shift keys: ° ½ ã ä å á å ³ ´ ç ô ù õ just typed randomly as an example. Unfortunatly this feature is lost with all other terminals I have tried.
To find which character to look for I made a table with all the 75 possibilies, printed it out and pasted on a card board. From xtern I copy and paste.

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[Triarius Fidelis]

Not having looked yet at the mentioned website I just want to mention that I am using xterm to create up to 75 additional characters on a US set keyboard using the alt and alt-shift keys: ° ½ ã ä å á å ³ ´ ç ô ù õ just typed randomly as an example. Unfortunatly this feature is lost with all other terminals I have tried.
To find which character to look for I made a table with all the 75 possibilies, printed it out and pasted on a card board. From xtern I copy and paste.

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[nooby]

Sadly the link to that method is no longer active?

Could you describe how to?

[Triarius Fidelis]

Here you go buddy

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:aXz3Z5TL2TMJ:process-of-elimination.net/index.php%3Ftitle%3DMeans_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System+Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

[nooby]

Thanks indeed, I've bookmarked it and when I feel confident enough I will test it.