From: Alan G Isaac (aisaac@american.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 10:50:22 EDT
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:05:29 +1000 Stephen Viles <sviles_abi@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> As Steve Anderson reported, in AbiWord 1.0.4 and later versions,
> you can enter the Danish accented characters æøåÆØÅ by holding
> down Alt while you type four digits on the numeric keypad
> (not the main keyboard), then releasing Alt. The four digits are:
> æ 0230
> ø 0248
> å 0229
> Æ 0198
> Ø 0216
> Å 0197
> More details at http://wp.netscape.com/eng/intl/accentinput.html
Of course this is almost intolerable if you use these much.
A much better approach is digraphs.
In Vim type
:h digraphs-use
and after that check out
:digraphs
to see a *very* well thought out approach to digraphs.
Please consider this a feature request.
Thanks,
Alan Isaac
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