Re: [tlug] FYI - Typing macrons, etc., in X apps

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vu-hung@example.com>]

Scott Robbins さんは書きました:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:11:00PM +0900, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> 
> 
>> The main problem I was bumbling around trying to get past was what
>> to use as a "Compose" key (or I guess it's sometimes called
>> "Multi_Key") on my machine, which is a MacBook with a Japanese
>> keyboard. So it lacks a right-Ctrl key, right-Alt, right-Win (or
>> even right-Command) and pretty much every other key that the
>> various how-to guides I found say are normally by default as the
>> Compose key.
> 
> Thank you for this.  I think I'll actually add it to my Japanese in
> Linux page as it can be useful for romaji.  (I prefer using the actual
> vowel rather than, for example ō as it makes it clearer to we gaijin if
> you should be using Oo as in Oosak or ou as in you (sono yō ni).
> 

For the characters that can not be input by hitting simple keyboard
strokes, or we can't not know how, referring[0] to a 文字コード表[1] is
a quick trick I am using.

If we know the code of a character, we can input it by pressing

Alt + Keycode [3]

[0] ( One of a) list of Unicode characters
http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/
[1] There is an application in Windows called 文字コード表.
[2] http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html