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[ILUG] Irish Keyboard Layout.

[ILUG] Irish Keyboard Layout.

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Jul 25 09:58:47 IST 2007


Darragh wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is an Irish keyboard layout available for
> Fedora 7? 
> 
> My prefered window manager is Gnome.
> I don't particularly mind if I don't have it in the console although
> that would be nice as well.
> 
> I really want to be able to easily get accented characters.  To get a
> Fada for example in windows I press right alt along with the letter.

Irish is no different to western European wrt to accented characters.
So you can use the standard X input mechanisms for this
(GTK apps use a small variation of this):

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkeyboard/

Pádraig.



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