On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Carlo Traverso
<traverso@posso.dm.unipi.it> wrote:
James> 2). This book really requires a way to enter UTF-8
James> characters. If I could just stick a circumflex above a's,
James> u's, and i's (both lower and upper case) that would be 99%
James> of what I need.
Then use US international keyboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
> There is an alternative layout that uses the physical US keyboard to
> type diacritics in some operating systems (including Windows). ...
> uses keys ', `, ", ^ and ~ as dead keys used to generate characters
> with diacritics by pressing the appropriate key, then the letter on
> the keyboard. The international keyboard is a software setting
> installed from the Windows control panel
The disadvantage is that to type ^ you need ^-space.
Mac and linux also allow to define a compose key. You type compose-^-a
to get a with circumflex.
Carlo