Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:29 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
Then consider any user in non-latin1 locale. For example, my locale is Russian. I have no "é" on my keyboard...
Well, I can use cut and paste, when I have a mouse and the text is already shown on my desktop. But what I have to do, when use just the cmdline interface? IOW, without any GUI -- just the Linux console, or remote ssh session? How can I fill the "é" character then?
You use the compose key like most the world has been using for a long time.
Yes. I actually use the compose key! But not for "é" ! Guess why? Because I use it for cyrillic (russian) input. And cyrillic (as well ass Japan, Hebrew etc.) has no "é" symbol.
~buc