Grave : À È Ì Ò Ù
Acute: Á É Í Ó Ú Ý
Circumflex: Â Ê Î Ô Û
Umlaut: Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü Ÿ
All the above are essential in upper- and lower case.
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Welcome at this site, but could you please help us to understand your problem better:
This is
- a question(?) concerning fonts?
- concerning keyboard layout?
- concerning availability in unicode (sound a bit ridiculous, though)?
- concerns availability of an “afrikaans language” set?
Please also name your OS and the version of LibreOffice you use.
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With my (german settings) I can just type all accents before the letter like ` then e for è and my keyboard even has ÄÖÜ directly available, but I never tried africaans. But therefore I don’t “see” where your problem is.
All these characters exist as “precomposed forms” in Unicode. Except for LATIN CAPITAL Y WITH DIAERESIS, they are allocated in Latin-1 Supplement block (upper- and lower-case) at U+00A0 to U+00FF. The exception is in Latin Extended-A at U+0178.
So, your question is not about existence (na deven not about availability in fonts because practically all of them implement these primary blocks.
Your question is likely about how to enter them in a user-friendly way from the keyboard. Answer depends on your OS, as already mentioned, your keyboard layout and your locale (primary language). You mentioned none of them.
If you live in Zuid Afrika, your keyboard is ready to be used with Afrikaans. Have you read basic manuals about your keyboard?
Thank you for your response. I’m using Linux mint and Libreoffice 24.8
I am a new Linux mint and LibreOffice (24.8) user - just switched from Microsoft. Would you please be so kind as to either explain how to go about typing the codes in question, or provide a link where I can find this information. I Did an online search, prior to seeking help on the Libre office site, however without any luck. Not fully familiar with Linux terminology I guess it’s possible that I did not use the correct search criteria.
I am very impressed with LibreOffice – downloaded and installed my Afrikaans dictionary effortless. Thank you for a fantastic, very user friendly product.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Usually this should come with the settings of your language in the OS. As I wrote I just type the accent (stays invisible), then the letter and the accented character shows. For this the OS should know “dead keys” ’ ` ^ ~ " and I guess this is not configured, if your system has perhaps english as system language.
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Can you type the letters you search in other programs (email / browser / shell) ?
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Related topics (I searched for the Netherlands, as they us US-keyboards in Europe, while Germany uses special keyboards):
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=347859
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https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1bok7vf/how_do_i_type_umlauts_in_linux_mint/?rdt=33596
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I guess I’d try the setxkbmap from the mint-forum first.
There are ways to configure your keyboard in the Control Center or System Settings. The exact utility depends on the desktop you chose when installing Mint (under Linux, you can choose from a plethora of “personalities” for your computer). The most common are GNOME, MATE and KDE Plasma. You have “simplified” environments with LxQt or Xfce.
If you just installed the default environment and don’t know how to answer the question, type the following command in a terminal:
printenv | grep DESKTOP
What does it return?
It is also important to know which language is your default. Type the following command:
printenv | grep LANG
This information indirectly gives the layout of your keyboard. From there, it is “easy” to find which key is a combining accent.
I installed Linux Mint/LibreOffice on my laptop. I am now communicating on my desktop with MS Windows O.S. and MS Office.
I will try to explain my problem to the best of my ability, providing two examples .
- In Afrikaans, the English word “rain” is spelt: “reën. In the LibreOffice Afrikaans dictionary, the umlaut is missing, hence when typed the word, is underlined in red, showing that the word, is miss spelt – (reen)
In the event of this happening in Microsoft Office I would rectify the word as follows: type r-e (ALT+137 to create ë) - n. = reën.
In capitals: type R-E (ALT+0203 to create Ë) – N. = REËN
- In Afrikaans, the English word “world” is spelt ”wêreld.” In LibreOffice, the circumflex is missing, hence when typed the word is underlined in red, showing that the word, is miss spelt – (wereld)
In the event of this happening in Microsoft Office I would rectify the word as follows:
Type w- (ALT+136 to create ê ) - l – d = wêreld
In capitals: type W- (ALT+0202 to create Ê) – L - D. = WÊRELD
Thank you for your time and patience.
Under Linux, you type an accent (a combining diacritical mark) followed by the base letter. Where accents are located on the keyboard depends on keyboard layout and on the OS language (called “locale”). This is why I ask about your desktop, keyboard and language.
There is also an indirect method to enter any Unicode codepoint, but it is less user-friendly than combining mark+letter:
- type the hexadecimal encoding of the desired character
(Warning! Windows uses decimal encoding in a non-Unicode character set; ë is U+00EB and Ë is U+00CB – note the inversion in ordering) - press Alt+X
You can also type with this procedure a sequence of base letter followed by combining marks. This is the standardised Unicode sequence where marks follow the base glyph. When you build a composed glyph with your keyboard, you press the accent first, then the base letter!
The most comfortable entry method is the one implemented in the keyboard driver. So, please provide information.
Thank you to everyone who responded to my ignorant posting. Having just switched from MS Windows, in these early stages I consider myself a Linux idiot rather than a Linux user. However, my ignorance is such that I appreciate that Linux with LibreOffice is an excellent OS.
nelj.wo@gmail.com would like to recall the message, “[Ask LibreOffice]
[English] Missing punctuation codes essential in the Afrikaans written
language”.
They are not “missing”. In fact you don’t know how to generate them.
This is not a solution to your question, only a reminder. So, please, delete your “non-answer” (optionally, reenter it as a comment). Only you, as post owner, can do this.