Keyboard settings similar to international english in windows

Asked by Mr. Cabana

Hi, I believe me and tons of other users are having the same problems with keyboard settings. Microsoft has created this International English keyboard language to help users who types in both their original languages (ie. spanish, portuguese, french, italian, german) and english.

As for my case, I think the main issues and expected behaviors for keyboard inputs are:

(' or " or ` or ~) + ("a" or "e" or "i" or "u") = typed letter with corresponding accent on top of it (ie. á, é, í, ó, ú)
~ + n = ñ
' + c = cellila c
' + any other letter = two characters should appear, both ' and the typed letter (useful for "you're", "you've got", "you'll", ...)

Of course these should apply accordingly to both upper or lower cases.

I guess all the other settings for US English Default are ok. If these changes would be available to any linux distro's it would help lots of people who types in both english and other languages like portuguese, french, spanish, dutch, german, italian, ...

I would also like to add that workarounds like ALT + CTRL + SHIFT + C or L_ALT + C or something like that to produce a simple cedilla c is not very handy and hard to memorize, very annoying for people who use such characters in their ordinary lives. Most of these people must be used with MS's International english settings.

If there's such a "driver" for these settings, please desconsider this message and point me to the solution.

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Mario César Señoranis (mariocesar) said :
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You can set the English International distribution by adding a newone on the Distribution tab, on the on the keyboard settings on System->Preferences->Keyboard. There are also many others distributions, I think you would find what you want, looking on the list.

Regards.

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Mr. Cabana (mrcabana) said :
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I already have it, but it doesn't fix it. Here is what happens X expected behaviour:

' + L --> Happens Ĺ --> expected 'L
' + V --> Happens just a beep --> expected 'V

Got it?

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Mr. Cabana (mrcabana) said :
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I already have it, but it doesn't fix it. Here is what happens X expected behaviour:

' + L --> Happens Ĺ --> expected 'L
' + V --> Happens just a beep --> expected 'V

Got it?

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Mario César Señoranis (mariocesar) said :
#4

Sorry Mr. Cabana.

I expect that you want press "simple quote" + "L", but I get 'L and 'V

I use a spanish keyboard layout, I get the beep and the Ĺ using the the "right accent": ´. So if you want to change the way the accent and the simple quote is set, You would need to study the xmodmap command, ($man xmodmap) look on this wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys#Setting_up_xmodmap.

Xmodmap change the key value to a new value, this way you would be able to change the distribution of your keyboard to your needs.

Regards, and please tell us if this is working for you.

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