[ Thanks to Marcel Gagné for
this link. ]
“Being a guy with an accent on one of the letters of his name,
you can imagine that I probably spend a lot of time entering
so-called ‘special characters’ in my documents and e-mails. Short
of keeping a document with these letters already written, then
copying, and pasting them, entering an é can be amazingly
time consuming. Worst of all, while OpenOffice.org lets me click
Insert, Special Character to select from a list, not all
applications have a handy list of characters to choose from. For
everyone out there who routinely has to enter special characters or
letters with accents, I’m going to give you a great KDE trick to
use that will ease the pain…”