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i am using NANO as my everyday text editor. I'm using an old laptop, so NANO it's fast, lightweight, and saves me battery. The only problem is the fact i can't use Special Characters and accents.

For example, as i am from Brazil, i need to use some everyday-accentued-portuguese-characters: à, á, Ç, ç, ó, ô, õ, ã, â...

Is there any way i can enable it?

To make õ be printed if '~' + 'o' is pressed, or ü if '¨' + 'u' is pressed...

Thank you :)

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  • My laptop have ubuntu, and i am using a terminal emulator.
    – ghaschel
    Sep 27 '12 at 14:24
  • it suddenly started to work properly. I will mark as answer the first answer by "oldest"
    – ghaschel
    Sep 27 '12 at 16:57
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Check you keyboard layout, maybe with the help of right-alt you have the characters.

Here are tips from about.com: http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/dia_ubuntu.htm

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  • Right alt. I'll try it today. But it would be great if it was easier to access them, like ´ + a = á Thx =)
    – ghaschel
    Sep 27 '12 at 14:32
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If you're just using a terminal emulator (terminator/gnome-terminal/etc) you can still use the Compose-Key combinations.

And/or if you're using a TTY and these keys are keys you have on your keyboard, you might just need to set your keyboard up correctly:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
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  • I Know about the Compose-Key combinations. They do not work on nano. If i'm on chrome, and i type ´ + a it returns me á, but if i type it on nano, it returns me ´a
    – ghaschel
    Sep 27 '12 at 14:27
  • What sort of terminal are you in? It works here in both Gnome Terminal and Terminator.
    – Oli ♦
    Sep 27 '12 at 14:40
  • Gnome-terminal. I have not read about the right-alt key. I will try it today. It would be inpractical to press right-alt to every special character =(
    – ghaschel
    Sep 27 '12 at 14:44

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