Arjen Markus (17 september 2002) The purpose of this page is to provide a place for information about typing characters that are not on the plain keyboard. I started it after some lamentation on my part for not being able to properly type "francais" for instance (it still does not work here :-(), later being introduced to the wonders of "xmodmap" and the trouble Keiichi Takahashi was experiencing with wish 8.4.0, when using Japanese input methods.
Methods of typing accented characters in X Window (UNIX, Linux):
> xev (put the mouse cursor in the window that appears and press the selected key)
"U becomes U-umlaut (well, if it works)
keycode 101 = Multi_key
Note: this worked on my Linux machine, using KDE as the window manager. However, under Reflection X on a SUN Solaris with CDE the results are less than satisfactory.