[PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

Richard England rlengland at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 22:17:53 UTC 2022


I believe what you are looking for may be the Compose Key. Here are a 
couple references but a search will turn up more, I'm certain.

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey

~~R

On 9/15/22 15:01, Rich Shepard wrote:
> My locale is set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I write primarily in text-based
> applications such as emacs and alpine, and I want to learn how to enter
> accented characters so I can type, for example, Résumé rather than 
> Resume.
>
> My web searches have not been productive, probably because I'm not 
> using the
> appropriate search terms.
>
> If there's a document I can read and use as a reference please point 
> me to
> it.
>
> Rich



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