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jccl1706

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 67

[SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

I have my system completely in the English language, how can I do to make him show me the characters containing accents and ñ

to do or that I need to install package?

Greetings

Last edited by jccl1706 (2010-03-19 15:53:10)

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Daenyth

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

You need fonts which contain those glyphs

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jccl1706

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2010-03-11

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

for example know a font that can be installed in order to see the arch character ñ

excuse is that I speak Spanish and English do not get along very well

thanks

Last edited by jccl1706 (2010-03-18 19:23:49)

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perbh

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

por ejemplo conoces algunas ??

If you _really_ want help - I would stick to English ...

toad

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

Have you seen this?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … mendations

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fsckd

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

If it helps you, in the future you can always ask questions in the Other Languages subforum. Be sure to specify Español in the subject so people know which language you are using.

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olvar

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Registered: 2009-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

Hi, I recently made my system spanish-able
here is how:
at the right of my space bar there is an unused "AltGr" key. I use that key to make the accented characters for example

<AltGr>+a=á   (you have to press them at the same time)
and so on.

Using xev get the keycode of the key you want to use as modifier, in my case it was 108.
Then, write in your ~/.Xmodmap this (create it if you don't have it):

keycode 108 = Mode_switch 
keysym a = a A aacute Aacute
keysym e = e E eacute Eacute
keysym i = i I iacute Iacute
keysym o = o O oacute Oacute
keysym u = u U uacute Uacute

keysym n = n N ntilde Ntilde
keycode 61 = slash question questiondown question
keycode 10 = 1 exclam exclamdown exclam
keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl udiaeresis Udiaeresis

the last 3 keys are the codes for the ?, ! and ' respectively (you have to get them using xev, they may be different in your system)

Now you can make the following characters:
áÁéÉiÍóÓúÚ ñÑ üÜ ¡¿

(note: to get the upper case characters is like <AltGr>+<Shift>+a=Á)

hope it helps!

Last edited by olvar (2010-03-18 20:07:42)

jccl1706

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

I do not think I expressed my problem well, what happens to me is that I was not showing for example ñ Uzbl use the browser and look for a site containing such dreams are not typical samples ñ me

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olvar

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Registered: 2009-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

no te entiendo... quizás si preguntas en español te puedo ayudar mas...

renuvio

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

Do you have the locales set and generated?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … el_Sistema

If you don't have any other reason to use your system in english, and can to set your configuration to any variant of spanish language, i think that should works fine.

jccl1706

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

with the following key conbinacion gets as one
Ñ in linux system SHIFT + CTRL + D 1 u and then to the tiny and F 1
to capitalize this is to avoid having to fit local people who use English as the Siteman I
greetings

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Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

You are using UTF, aren't you? Just to be sure...

[stijn@hermes ~]$ echo $LANG
nl_BE.utf8

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jccl1706

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED]I can not show special characters like ñ

I'll leave a sample

[jcesar@archbox ~] $ echo $ LANG
en_US.utf8

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