[TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

[Oliver Elphick]

Andrew Perrin wrote:
  >Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate
  >some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over
  >some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character
  >"doppel-s".  I've tried:
  >
  >xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"
  >
  >and it doesn't complain, but it also doesn't do anything. What do people
  >do for this case?

Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u "

:dig shows all currently-defined digraphs.

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