From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:11:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Importing NanoBlogger post "UTF-8"
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+Not being able to print the *é* in fiancée in the last post was bugging me,
+so I thought I'd figure out how to enter UTF-8 characters.  The short answer
+is that the right `Alt` button on my keyboard is perhaps the
+[AltGr key](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key).  To produce an *é*, I
+pressed `AltGr i`, which I found simply by trying all the various `AltGr`
+combinations.
+
+I'd prefer [this two stroke system](http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Accented_Characters), since it has less to remember, but `AltGr ;` produces *»*,
+without waiting for another keystroke.  I probably need to reconfigure
+my keyboard to get this to work.
+
+There's a reconfiguring-for-X example
+[here](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html).  What if you aren't in an
+X environment?  Ah, [Bruno Haible](ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO-2.html) points out the `kbd` package with `kbd_mode`.  `man kbd_mode`
+looks like a good source of info, but I'll put that on hold for now and get
+back to work :p.  There is also a [kbd fork](http://lct.sourceforge.net/),
+which I'll look into if the standard `kbd` configuration turns out to be too
+complicated.  Ooh, [Marjan Parsa](http://www.maruko.ca/i18n/) has a nice
+mini-HOWTO.  Alright, *now* back to work...
+
+[[!tag  linux]]