Icelandic acute accents

[rannuG]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8014668#post8014668



Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and have a problem with acute accents (like á, é, í, ó, ú, and ý).

My keyboard has always worked well until recently when I started configuring the settings. After pressing 'Reset to defaults' in System>Preferences>Keyboard, the acute accent settings disabled themselves. I tried the Spanish keyboard layout but it didn't have acute accents either.
I haven't changed anything in layout options.
I'm using Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 keyboard.

Please respond if you know any possible answers.

Thanks.

[LowSky]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingLanguages

[rannuG]

Thanks, but that doesn't answer my keyboard issue.

[SuaSwe]

Which language do you currently have configured in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts?

[rannuG]

Icelandic. There are five variants: Iceland, Iceland Dvorak, Iceland eliminate dead keys, Iceland Macintosh and Iceland Sun dead keys. None of these seem to have acute accents.
I'm using the default Iceland.

[SuaSwe]

I just tested it from here and I can't actually see where the acute accents are meant to be!

When typing in Windows, where on the keyboard would they be located?

[rannuG]

On the Icelandic keyboard it would be the one with the "´" and "^" buttons on it. It also used to work on Ubuntu.

[corncob]

I'm using the United States keyboard and can do á é í ó ú as well as other things £ € ¥ . I set the compose key by going to System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options > Compose key. I selected the Left Win key but you have other choices. I then printed out the compose key sequences from http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806...dq6q2n7?a=view I seldom look at it though as the symbols I use seem quite intuitive: [Compose Key][~][n]=ñ, [Compose]["][u]=ü. It doesn't matter in which order you put the characters in: é is [Compose][e]['].

[rannuG]

It would be very nice if I could reset it to the way it was. I could always press one specific button (on US keyboard it's the ':' button) and a vowel.

Any ideas?

[corncob]

It would be very nice if I could reset it to the way it was. I could always press one specific button (on US keyboard it's the ':' button) and a vowel.

Any ideas?

Well, I have an idea but that's about all. I haven't gotten into it as the compose key sequences I described have been adequate for my uses -- but it sounds like the : key was set as the third level key although my keyboard layout options don't give me that as one of my choices. Here's an excerpt from the keyboard layouts help file. I haven't been there myself so let me know how you do:

A third level key allows you to obtain a third character from a key, in the same way that pressing Shift with a key produces a different character to pressing the key alone.

Use this group to select a key you want to act as a third level modifier key.

Pressing the third-level key and Shift produces a fourth character from a key.

The third and fourth level characters for your keyboard layout are shown in the Keyboard Indicator Layout View Window.