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cedille (as in "français")

Asked by Lostados

I am using a Dell Pavilion with a US keyboard - which I changed to US International. I use a lot foreign languages and all works fine but for the "cedille" - the little comma under the "c" in French, as in "français". All I get, no matter what I try, is "ć". How to get the "cedille" keeping the US international keyboard.

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#1

Hi,

You can simply right-click on the upper desktop bar and add the applet for inserting special characters. Then you will have several sets of special characters one of which will present you with the ç. When you selct it, it will put the character in the clipboard and you can paste it back in your document. An alternative is to add the keyboard indicator and add a French keyboard layout (System > Preferences > Keyboard). Thus you can click on the keyboard indicator to switch your keyboard from US to FR to type the ç character.

An other way is to go to the System menu, then Administration and Language support. If you have French installed on your computer and if you are using French for your user interface, you can set the language support to use Ibus and then configure ibus to enter French characters : Ibus will turn your keyboard into a French keyboard and then you can directly type the ç character which is the 9 key. I use this method as I'm using Ubuntu in French.

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#2

If you don't mind memorising a couple of codes, you can actually enter Ç and ç really quickly.

For Ç, hold down the <CTRL> and <SHIFT> keys, and type:
u00c7

For ç, hold down <CTRL> and <SHIFT> while typing:
u00e7

(For clarity, those are zeros, not letter Os.)

This method works for adding any unicode character. You can find the appropriate code with Character Map (Applications > Accessories > Character Map) and its handy Search function.

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Lostados (b-elmonte) said : 		#3

I am new in Ubuntu (and loving it!) and:
Marc - what you said made sense -I had already looked into the Character Map - but didn't work.

Vu Do - what do you mean by "upper desktop bar"? you are talking about OpenOffice or what?
- what is IBus?

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Best Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#4

Hi,

The method described by Marc works well. Thanks Marc (I was looking for a way to do that).

By "upper desktop bar" I meant the upper control panel bar (I don't remember its English name), where you have the three menus on the left (Applications, Places, System) aand the calendar, network symbol etc on the right end. When you right click on this bar, you are presented with a contextual menu where you can select "add to...", then you can select the keyboard indicator.

Ibus is an entry method for complex characters (i.e. characters with accents, symbol characters like ideograms etc.) from the different languages that Ubuntu is supporting. When you select Ibus preferences, you can select an entry method and add it. Thus if you select the French entry method, you'll get a virtual French keyboard whenever you activate that entry method. When you desactivate it, you are returned to the true English US keyboard.

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Lostados (b-elmonte) said : 		#5

Thanks Vu Do Quynh, that solved my question.

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Lostados (b-elmonte) said : 		#6

Thank you very much. Your "upper desktop bar" solved my problem beautifully. What Marc says does make sense: after all in Windows one could press the "alt" key while typing 3 code numbers and that was it. Perhaps one must type one more key to insert the letter, in Mark's solution. Thanks again.

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Lostados (b-elmonte) said : 		#7

Thank you very much. Your "upper desktop bar" solved my problem beautifully. What Marc says does make sense: after all in Windows one could press the "alt" key while typing 3 code numbers and that was it. Perhaps one must type one more key to insert the letter, in Mark's solution. Thanks again.

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Lostados (b-elmonte) said : 		#8

Thank you very much. Your "upper desktop bar" solved my problem beautifully. What Marc says does make sense: after all in Windows one could press the "alt" key while typing 3 code numbers and that was it. Perhaps one must type one more key to insert the letter, in Mark's solution. Thanks again.