How to write Czech letters on Ubuntu Touch with hardware keyboard?

Question

I would like to write Czech texts on Ubuntu Touch with a hardware keyboard. I have set the hardware keyboard layout to "České (QWERTY)", however I can't write some Czech letters such as "ó" or "ď", which are not on the standard keyboard and they have to be written by pressing "´" or "ˇ" key first and than writing the corresponding letter. I have noticed that there is a special keyboard layout writing only letters with diacritical marks. Could I change between these two layouts by some keyboard shortcut or is there any other way how to write required letters?

Answer 1

You want to define a compose key. I use Caps Lock for that.

In preferences, go to

Keyboard » Shortcut » Typing

and change the Compose Key entry with any key you'd like. I suggest Caps Lock unless you use it often to write in capitals?

Once that is setup you do:

Compose Key + < + C → Č

Compose Key + ' + o → ó

Compose Key + ' + e → é

In most cases, the order in which you enter the characters does not matter. So ' + o or o + ' gives you the same thing. However < + - gives you an arrow ← and - + < gives you nothing...

If you have a hard time finding the combo keys to generate this or that, you may check out my reference about the X11 Compose Key.