How to get grave accent

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

Hello,

this is the answer to your question.
Thanks
nicole Thatcher

edith@edith-Dell-DC051:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux edith-Dell-DC051 3.2.0-76-generic-pae #111-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13
22:34:29 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
edith@edith-Dell-DC051:~$

On 20/02/15 08:01, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
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>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> What is the output of:
>
> lsb_release -a; uname -a
>
> Thanks
>

Just to tick the box, did you select French language at install time?

No, I didn't select French language at install time.

On 22/02/15 16:36, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
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>
> Status: Open => Needs information
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> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Just to tick the box, did you select French language at install time?
>

How do you get the acute accent?
The grave accent should be similar.

What keyboard layout are you using? If it is international with AltGr, then the grave accent is on the top row leftmost key. see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png

You have to press that key before the letter where you want to put the account on.

No I didn't select French langauge at install time

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Now I can get the grave accent on the a only but not on any other vowel
and I have lost all the other accents !!!

On 22/02/2015 17:36, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Manfred Hampl proposed the following answer:
> How do you get the acute accent?
> The grave accent should be similar.
>
> What keyboard layout are you using? If it is international with AltGr,
> then the grave accent is on the top row leftmost key. see
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-
> International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png
>
> You have to press that key before the letter where you want to put the
> account on.
>

What keyboard layout have you currently selected?

What changes have you done since the other accents have worked until the moment that they do no more work?

What do you get if you press the grave key and letter e?
What do you get if you press the acute key and letter e?

You wrote in your original question "... changed the keyboard layout to International AltGr dead keys ...". What keyboard layout did you have selected before?

Do you have a language indicator in the top right corner of the screen where you can select different keyboards (different languages)?

My keyboard layout is :
English (International AltGr dead key)
English (UK)

On 23/02/15 12:11, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> What keyboard layout have you currently selected?
>
> What changes have you done since the other accents have worked until the
> moment that they do no more work?
>
> What do you get if you press the grave key and letter e?
> What do you get if you press the acute key and letter e?
>
> You wrote in your original question "... changed the keyboard layout to
> International AltGr dead keys ...". What keyboard layout did you have
> selected before?
>
> Do you have a language indicator in the top right corner of the screen
> where you can select different keyboards (different languages)?
>

There were six questions in my last reply, but you have answered only one.
Please provide also the answers to the other questions!

Sorry I didn't notice the other questions. Here are the answers:
1. I made many changes but changed them back all to the original.
2. When I press grave + e and also grave + a I get the grave accent on
the letter but I have to type them quickly in succession.
I get no other accents and no cedilla for c.
3 When I press e for aigu accent I get e.
4. I think that I had English (UK) only; it's my grandson who introduced
English (International AltGr dead key) followed by English (UK).
5. Yes I have an icon at the top of my screen showing English
(International AltGr dead key) with a bullet and underneath English (UK).

Thank you for your help

On 23/02/15 14:51, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> There were six questions in my last reply, but you have answered only one.
> Please provide also the answers to the other questions!
>

To verify whether the keyboard selection works as expected and that the what the keyboard layout really is, can you please select the international keyboard with the language selector icon and in a response to this question type all letters on the keyboard (one with caps, and once without).

This should give something like

`1234567890-=
~!@#$%^&*()_+
qwertyuiop[]\
QWERTYUIOP{}|
etc. etc.

I hope you are aware that for putting an accent on a letter you have (in a "dead keys" keyboard layout) to press the accent key first, release it, and then separately press the vowel key.

What do you get if you press and release
` and space
` and a
` and e
´ and space
´ and a
´ and e

(There should be no difference whether you type them rapidly in succession, or if you press and release the accent key, wait a minute and then press the vowel key.)

The US-international keyboard should produce c with cedilla with AltGr+, (press and hold the right Alt key and press the comma key, then release both).
What do you get with AltGr-m ?

I don't know what you mean by language selector icon, I can't see any
icon with this name. The keyboard layout screen displays 2 items :
English (International AltGr dead keys) and English (UK). The layout
chart at the top of my screen gives me a picture which, I believe, is
that of the international keyboard.
I typed as you advised all letters on the keyboard with caps and
without. There is no sign \ at the end of the line qwerty...etc. , and
no sign | at the end of the same line in caps. I get these signs at the
of the line asdfg....etc. with out and with caps. on the bottom line I
get < instead of \ and, with caps, > instead of |.
I pressed AtlGr key then
` and space and got exactly that
` and a I got à
  ` and e i got è sometimes but most of the time I got `e
  I don't find the acute accent on its own on the international
keyboard, so I was unable to try a or e with it.
I am able to get the circonflexe accent on capital a  but not on E ^E,
and not on small letters a and e.
I am unable to get the cedilla , I get a comma ,

On 24/02/15 07:12, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> To verify whether the keyboard selection works as expected and that the
> what the keyboard layout really is, can you please select the
> international keyboard with the language selector icon and in a response
> to this question type all letters on the keyboard (one with caps, and
> once without).
>
> This should give something like
>
> `1234567890-=
> ~!@#$%^&*()_+
> qwertyuiop[]\
> QWERTYUIOP{}|
> etc. etc.
>
> I hope you are aware that for putting an accent on a letter you have (in
> a "dead keys" keyboard layout) to press the accent key first, release
> it, and then separately press the vowel key.
>
> What do you get if you press and release
> ` and space
> ` and a
> ` and e
> ´ and space
> ´ and a
> ´ and e
>
> (There should be no difference whether you type them rapidly in
> succession, or if you press and release the accent key, wait a minute
> and then press the vowel key.)
>
> The US-international keyboard should produce c with cedilla with AltGr+, (press and hold the right Alt key and press the comma key, then release both).
> What do you get with AltGr-m ?
>

It seems that my instructions were no clear.
What I called "language selector" indeed should have been named "keyboard selector" (the icon in the top right corner).

Please switch to "English (UK)" and then switch back to "English (International AltGr dead key)"
And then press all keys in sequence and paste the full output into this question document that we can verify the results to find an image that resembles your keyboard selection.

Here is the full output starting without caps, then caps, from the first
line to the 4th one.

`1234567890-=
~!@#$%^&*()_+
qwertyuiop[]
QWERTYUIOP{}
asdfghjkl;'\
ASDFGHJKL:"|
<zxcvbnm,./
 >ZXCVBNM<>?

On 24/02/15 11:26, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> It seems that my instructions were no clear.
> What I called "language selector" indeed should have been named "keyboard selector" (the icon in the top right corner).
>
> Please switch to "English (UK)" and then switch back to "English (International AltGr dead key)"
> And then press all keys in sequence and paste the full output into this question document that we can verify the results to find an image that resembles your keyboard selection.
>

Ok, it really seems to be the layout as shown in http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png with the only deviation that the rightmost key from row 2 has been moved to row 3 and you have an extra <> key to the left of the fourth row.

What do you get if you press:

AltGr+' and then e ?
AltGr+,
AltGr+m
Shift+AltGr+,

("+" denoting that you press the keys at the same time, i.e. press the first one and while you keep it pressed, press also the other one; or for the last combination: press and hold "shift" and press and hold "AltGr" and press and release "," and then release the first two)

Please copy the output into this question document that we can see the results.

Here are the results.'

I am not sure which is the ' so I pressed (which has the symbol
according to the International layout) and then ' on the third line of keys
9 '
,
m
<<

On 24/02/15 13:31, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> Ok, it really seems to be the layout as shown in
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-
> International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png with the only
> deviation that the rightmost key from row 2 has been moved to row 3 and
> you have an extra <> key to the left of the fourth row.
>
> What do you get if you press:
>
> AltGr+' and then e ?
> AltGr+,
> AltGr+m
> Shift+AltGr+,
>
> ("+" denoting that you press the keys at the same time, i.e. press the
> first one and while you keep it pressed, press also the other one; or
> for the last combination: press and hold "shift" and press and hold
> "AltGr" and press and release "," and then release the first two)
>
> Please copy the output into this question document that we can see the
> results.
>

Which key did you press when I wrote about AltGr? It has to be the "right Alt key", the key just right of the space bar (the one with blue text on it on http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png )

When I referred to keys like ' I was talking about the key that is in the position where in that picture the ' letter is printed.
This might differ from what you have printed on your keys!

I pressed the AltGr on the right of the space bar.

In the picture there are two keys which show the sing ', one is the key
with number 9 which gives
9 and not '; and the other one is the penultimate key at the end of the
third row which gives ' .

I hope that I have answered your comments. I still don't get the accents
and cedilla.

On 24/02/15 15:16, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Manfred Hampl proposed the following answer:
> Which key did you press when I wrote about AltGr? It has to be the
> "right Alt key", the key just right of the space bar (the one with blue
> text on it on http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22
> /KB_US-International.svg/900px-KB_US-International.svg.png )
>
> When I referred to keys like ' I was talking about the key that is in the position where in that picture the ' letter is printed.
> This might differ from what you have printed on your keys!
>

What output do you get if you press the AltGr key (and keep it pressed) and type all the keys row by row?

This is what I get without caps and with caps pressing nAltGr key all
the time.

`234567890-=
~!@#$%^&*()_+
qwertyuiop[]
QWERTYUIOP{}
asdfghjkl;'\
ASDFGHJKL:"|
<zxcvbnm,./
XCVBNM<>?

On 24/02/15 17:51, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> What output do you get if you press the AltGr key (and keep it pressed)
> and type all the keys row by row?
>

There seems to be something wrong with your AltGr key.
What you have provided is the output to be expected when AltGr is NOT pressed.
Do you have the possibility to test another keyboard, to verify if that might be a hardware problem with your keyboard?

At the moment I have no possiblity of testing another keayboard.

On 25/02/15 07:16, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> Your question #262428 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262428
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> There seems to be something wrong with your AltGr key.
> What you have provided is the output to be expected when AltGr is NOT pressed.
> Do you have the possibility to test another keyboard, to verify if that might be a hardware problem with your keyboard?
>

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