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Configure X to handle non-English characters

How do you type these characters?

ÁÉÍÑÓÚáéíóñú¡¿ (Spanish)
ÅÄÖåäö         (Swedish)
ÅÆØåæø         (Danish)
ßÜü            (German)
Çç             (Portuguese)
€¥             (Currency)
©®             (Copyright, etc.) Sorry, there is no copyleft - yet. ;-)
²³¼½¾          (Various characters)

In xorg.conf, in the InputDevice, add the line

Option      "XkbVariant"   "altgr-intl"

This is how my InputDevice look like:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbLayout"    "us"
        Option      "XkbVariant"   "altgr-intl"
EndSection

Restart X, and then play around with the AltGR key (to the right of the SPACE tab) to find the keys you need to use.
Remember that you can get some of the characters listed above using so-called Dead Keys, for example first typing a " (double quote, displays nothing), followed by an o, which then will display an ö.

Last modified: Sat Jul 19 14:45:53 CEST 2008