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Testing the updated IM support in GTK+

In Improving input method support in GTK+-based apps, we talked about some work to update the list of compose sequences that GTK+ knows to the latest version that comes from Xorg. From 691 compose sequences, we now support over 5000. The patch has landed in GTK+ (trunk), and here are instructions for testing. If you …

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FOSDEM ’08, summary and comments

I attended FOSDEM ’08 which took place on the 23rd and 24th of February in Brussels. Compared to other events, FOSDEM is a big event with over 4000 (?) participants and over 200 lectures (from lightning talks to keynotes). It occupied three buildings at a local university. Many sessions were taking place at the same …

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Keyboard layout for combining diacritics

Typically, if you want to type characters with accents, such as á, ë, ś, you need to configure a suitable keyboard layout that includes compose sequences for those characters. The produced characters are what we call as precomposed characters; which were included in the early stages of Unicode. Nowdays, the idea is that you do …

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Cannot write Greek Polytonic in Linux

For up to date instructions for Greek and Greek Polytonic see How to type Greek, Greek Polytonic in Linux. The following text is kept for historical purposes. Greek and Greek Polytonic now works in Linux, using the default Greek layout. General Update: If you have Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10 or a similarly new distribution, then …

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Γράψιμο ελληνικών μέσα από GNOME

Ενημέρωση 2010: Δείτε τις νεώτερες οδηγίες στο How to type Greek, Greek Polytonic in Linux. Το να γράψουμε τώρα ελληνικά σε Linux είναι ό,τι πιο εύκολο. Οι παρακάτω οδηγίες είναι για πολύ παλιά έκδοση του Linux και δεν τις συνιστούμε πια. Υπάρχουν διάφοροι τρόποι να γράψει κανείς ελληνικά στο X.org. Εδώ θα δούμε τον τρόπο …

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