Multi-language input setup
I often have to input diacritics and other characters (more off-Wiki than on), so I have my computer set up to handle these things.
I'm a Linux guy, and prefer Debian. I'm sure there are methods similar to the following for Windows or Mac, but I don't know them. As I live in Japan, I use a Japanese keyboard; most of the keys are the same as on an American keyboard, but some puctuation marks are in different places, and there's a button for switching between Roman and Japanese input. For Japanese input I use kkc with Fcitx.
To input diacritics, I have made my Insert key into a Compose key—the Compose key is common on European keyboards. To do this, I have added the line keysym Insert = Multi_key
to my ~/.xmodmap
file and run $ xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
at startup. Of course, this could be done with any other key on the keyboard I don't use. The Compose key makes input of diacritics a snap—for example:
- Compose + ' + e = é (great for French)
- Compose + " + o = ö (great for German)
- Compose + - + a = ā (great for Japanese)
- Compose + a + e = æ (great for words like encyclopædia, though you won't get away with this on Wikipædia)
- Compose + - + - + - = — (an emdash—I love these)
- Compose + - + - + . = – (an endash—used on Wikipædia for date ranges: 1899–1943)
I'm always discovering new uses for the Compose key. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to support IPA, which I use all the time off-Wiki (and sometimes on-Wiki), I don't know an easy method to input IPA characters, so I guess I'm stuck with copy & paste.
Some pet peeves
- Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing
- starchy prescriptivism—the culling of unproblematic, all-too-English "split" infinitives, stranded prepositions, and the inanimate whose. Any prescription that does not improve the communicative power of the language needs to go.
Recognized content
- Louis Riel (comics)
- Laura Secord
- George Herriman
- Gertie the Dinosaur
- Goodman Beaver
- The Blind Leading the Blind
- Three Beauties of the Present Day
- Wordless novel
- I Never Liked You
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Departures (2008 film)
(with Crisco 1492) - Maus
- A Contract with God
- Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
- How a Mosquito Operates
- Katsudō Shashin
- Madman's Drum
- Southern Cross (wordless novel)
- Little Nemo (1911 film)
- Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book
- Ukiyo-e
- Gods' Man
- Love It to Death
- The Playboy
- Canadian comics
- Billy DeBeck
- The End of the Road
- Bois Protat
- Japanese serow
- The Beguiling
- Winsor McCay
- Passionate Journey
- Prelude to a Million Years
- Vertigo (wordless novel)
- Song Without Words
- Wild Pilgrimage
- Little Sammy Sneeze
- Françoise Mouly
- 25 Images of a Man's Passion
- Comics
- Utagawa Toyoharu
- My War
- Sad Wings of Destiny
- Destiny (wordless novel)
- It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
- Ed the Happy Clown
- Art Spiegelman
- Kanae Yamamoto (artist)
- John Wilson Bengough
- Masumi Mitsui
- Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
- Kusumoto Ine
- Jimmy Frise
- Kabukidō Enkyō
- Love and Rockets X
- Sept haï-kaïs
- Poison River
- Laura Secord:
A Study in Canadian Patriotism
(at Wikisource)
-
Nurioke no bosetsu, Suzuki Harunobu, mid-18th century
Articles created
* = created after following a REDLINK
- Frank v Canada (AG) 2019-01-12
- bcachefs 2018-11-22
- Proto-Inuit 2018-09-26 *
- Storm Alliance 2018-08-29
- The Dingbat Family 2018-07-13 *
- HTC U12+ 2018-05-23
- Isabella Jones and Ira Junius Johnson 2018-05-17
- Ukiyo-e Ruikō 2018-02-20 *
- Kanō Tomonobu 2018-02-20 *
- The Troublemakers 2017-08-20 *
- The Children of Palomar 2017-08-19 *
- List of works by Sharaku 2017-07-02
- Seirō Jūnitoki 2017-04-12
- Fujin Tomari-kyaku no Zu 2017-03-16
- Hokkoku Goshiki-zumi 2017-03-14
- Tsuitate no Danjo 2017-02-12
- Kushi (Utamaro) 2017-02-12
- Kasumi-ori Musume Hinagata 2017-02-11
- Musashino (Utamaro) 2017-02-10
- Hari-shigoto 2017-02-10
- Kasen Koi no Bu 2017-02-09
- Kōmei Bijin Rokkasen 2017-02-07
- Fujin Sōgaku Jittai and Fujo Ninsō Juppin 2017-02-07
- Shinagawa no Tsuki, Yoshiwara no Hana, and Fukagawa no Yuki 2017-02-06
- Utamakura (Utamaro) 2017-02-05
- Utamaro's pictures of abalone divers 2017-02-02
- Sugatami Shichinin Keshō 2017-02-02
- On Top and Beneath Ryōgoku Bridge 2017-02-01
- Hasegawa Chikuyō 2016-12-28
- Tim Pitsiulak 2016-12-24 *
- Multiple lining tool 2016-12-19 *
- Hōjō Akitoki 2016-12-09 (created over redirect)
- Red and White Plum Blossoms 2016-12-09
- Tsukimaro 2016-12-03 *
- Loosemore–Hanby index 2016-12-03 *
- Jack Hillier (art historian) 2016-12-03
- Eiji Mikawa 2016-11-22
- Yes California 2016-11-10
- Shō Fukao 2016-11-04
- Kōrō Sasaki 2016-11-03
- Tomi Kōra 2016-11-01
- Yamagata Girls Farm 2016-10-19 *
- Torii Kiyotsune 2016-10-12
- Okumura Toshinobu 2016-10-12
- Miyagawa Chōki 2016-10-12
- Shūsuke Nomura 2016-07-19
- Meags Fitzgerald 2016-07-07
- Kobayashi Eitaku 2016-06-11
- Bunchō 2016-06-05
- Kawamata Tsunemasa 2016-06-05
- Kawamata Tsuneyuki 2016-06-05
- Tsukioka Settei 2016-06-05
- Torii Kiyohiro 2016-06-05
- Quatre poèmes hindous 2016-05-28 *
- Sept haï-kaïs 2016-05-21
- Whit Taylor (cartoonist) 2016-05-05
- Megane-e 2016-05-02 *
- Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus 2016-05-02
- Katsukawa Shun'ei 2016-04-08
- Shunman 2016-04-08
- Nishimura Shigenaga 2016-04-07
- Sam Hunter (cartoonist) 2016-03-23
- Christian Köhler 2016-03-17 *
- Kabukidō Enkyō 2016-03-11 *
- Mitate-e 2016-03-09 *
- Nina Bunjevac 2016-03-06 *
- Inanimate whose 2016-02-21
- Where Three Roads Meet 2016-02-20 *
- Charles Lindsey (editor) 2016-02-17 *
- The Development 2016-02-14 *
- Coming Soon!!! 2016-02-13 *
- Jean-Baptiste Côté 2016-02-07 *
- Masumi Mitsui 2015-12-30
- Willie Nepoose 2015-12-14
- The Woman in the Dunes 2015-12-11
- Torii Kotondo 2015-11-28 *
- The Silver Pony 2015-11-26
- Kanō Yasunobu 2015-11-22 *
- Kanō Takanobu 2015-11-19 *
- Kanō Naonobu 2015-11-19
- Kanō Michinobu 2015-11-17
- Harada Naojirō 2015-11-13 *
- Citizen Rex 2015-10-18 *
- The Twilight Children 2015-10-17
- Sloth (comics) 2015-10-17 *
- Kanō Naganobu 2015-10-02 *
- Kyōka 2015-09-26 *
- Artistic Japan 2015-09-25 *
- Kanō Kazunobu 2015-09-23 *
- Kanō Einō 2015-09-23 *
- William Briggs 2015-09-19 *
- Albert E. S. Smythe 2015-09-18 *
- George-Paschal Desbarats 2015-09-12 *
- Dit name 2015-09-10 *
- The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 2015-09-09 *
- To the Heart of the Storm 2015-09-09 *
- George Ham 2015-09-08 *
- William Alexander Foster 2015-09-07 *
- Kusaka Genzui 2015-08-28
- Cypress Trees 2015-08-20
- Richard Taylor (cartoonist) 2015-07-26 *
- Isai VL LGV31 2015-07-11 (my phone—I hate it)
- The Love Bunglers 2015-07-06 *
- God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls 2015-07-06 *
- Andrew Scott Irving 2015-06-22 *
- Bumperhead 2015-06-18 *
- Marble Season 2015-06-18 *
- The Life and Times of Conrad Black 2015-06-18
- Love and Rockets X 2015-05-15 *
- Delphin-Verlag 2015-04-15
- The Death-Ray 2015-04-03
- The Sculptor (comics) 2015-03-26
- Sakura shrimp 2015-03-24
- Kanae Yamamoto (artist) 2015-03-10 *
- Chōkōsai Eishō 2015-03-09
- Eishi 2015-03-07 *
- Philippe Burty 2015-03-05 *
- Zyx (cartoonist) 2015-03-02 *
- Mustapha Ourrad 2015-02-28 *
- Hokkei 2015-02-27
- Kuniyasu 2015-02-27
- Sadahide 2015-02-26
- Adachi Ginkō 2015-02-26
- Hikone screen 2015-02-24 *
- Torii Kiyonobu II 2015-02-19
- Julio's Day 2015-02-07 *
- Wig Wam Bam (comics) 2015-02-07 *
- Human Diastrophism 2015-02-06 *
- Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1011 2015-02-02
- Coco (cartoonist) 2015-01-12 *
- Hernandez brothers 2015-01-05
- Guri and Gura 2014-12-02
- Locos 2014-11-29
- Fran (comics) 2014-11-25
- Sannin Kichisa Kuruwa no Hatsugai 2014-10-04
- Tomimoto-bushi 2014-09-22
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art 2014-09-11
- Three Beauties of the Present Day 2014-07-08
- Chikuma Shobō 2014-06-05
- Harvey Kurtzman's editorship of Mad 2014-05-04
- Story Without Words 2014-04-20
- The City (wordless novel) 2014-04-13
- The Sun (wordless novel) 2014-03-22
- Destiny (wordless novel) 2014-03-14
- 1982 Demos 2013-11-04
- Mel Birnkrant 2013-09-20
- Vertigo (wordless novel) 2013-07-15
- Madman's Drum 2013-07-14
- Wild Pilgrimage 2013-07-14
- Prelude to a Million Years 2013-07-14
- Little Nemo (1911 film) 2013-04-28
- Giacomo Patri 2013-04-12 *
- The Idea (1932 film) 2013-04-06
- The Idea (wordless novel) 2013-04-05
- 25 Images of a Man's Passion 2013-04-04
- Passionate Journey 2013-04-04
- Southern Cross (wordless novel) 2013-04-03
- Gods' Man 2013-03-26
- Clément Moreau 2013-03-17 *
- Wordless novel 2013-03-17
- A Life Force 2013-03-12
- A Family Matter (comics) 2013-03-12
- Dropsie Avenue 2013-03-12
- List of instruments by Harry Partch 2013-03-05
- List of works by Harry Partch 2013-03-05
- Office of Religious Freedom 2013-02-20
- Bois Protat 2013-02-05 *
- Koyama Press 2013-01-03 *
- Goodman Beaver 2012-11-03
- Hey Look! 2012-10-28
- Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book 2012-10-22
- Building Stories 2012-10-09
- Now & Then Books 2012-10-09
- Little Sammy Sneeze 2012-06-24
- Nobuhiro Tanabe 2012-05-28
- Every Third Thought 2012-05-18
- Mister Wonderful (comics) 2012-05-11
- Wilson (comics) 2012-05-11
- Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera 2012-05-08
- The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor 2012-05-08
- Monsieur Linh and His Child 2012-04-05
- XMDF (E-book format) 2012-03-11
- Iron Man (Canadian comics) 2012-02-07
- Richard Comely 2012-02-07
- Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists 2012-02-06
- Glossary of comics terminology 2012-02-03
- Delaf 2012-02-01
- Dirty Plotte 2012-02-01
- Safarir 2012-01-24
- Croc (magazine) 2012-01-23
- Les 400 coups 2012-01-23
- Éditions Mille-Îles 2012-01-23
- Albert Chartier 2012-01-23 *
- Anglo-American Publishing 2012-01-23
- Bell Features 2012-01-22 *
- La Pastèque 2012-01-14
- Alex Fellows 2012-01-04
- Canadian comics 2012-01-03
- The Sunday Funnies 2011-12-31
- The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists 2011-12-26
- The Beguiling 2011-12-22
- Hillborough Studios 2011-12-18 *
- Maple Leaf Publishing 2011-12-18 *
- Canadian Whites 2011-12-17 *
- List of Canadian comics creators 2011-12-12
- Mariko Tamaki 2011-12-06
- Jillian Tamaki 2011-12-06
- John Bell (historian) 2011-12-02
- Judenhass (comics) 2011-11-26
- Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse 2011-11-10
- The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library 2011-11-10
- The Sleepers (San Francisco band) 2011-11-02
- Ricky Williams (musician) 2011-11-01
- The Star Club 2011-11-01
- Daidogei World Cup 2011-10-16
- Junko Yaginuma (model) 2011-09-18
- Alias the Cat! 2011-06-07
- Rubber Blanket 2011-06-07
- The Ragtime Ephemeralist 2011-06-07
- Breakdowns (comics) 2011-06-07
- The Cardboard Valise 2011-06-06
- Oog & Blik 2011-06-03
- Coconino Press 2011-06-03
- Eric Reynolds (comics) 2011-06-03
- Poison River 2011-05-31
- George Sprott 2011-05-30
- Clyde Fans 2011-05-30
- Cerebus phonebook 2011-05-23
- Latter Days (comics) 2011-05-19
- Going Home (comics) 2011-05-19
- Rick's Story 2011-05-19
- Guys (comics) 2011-05-19
- Mothers and Daughters (comics) 2011-04-28
- Melmoth (comics) 2011-04-28
- Jaka's Story (comics) 2011-04-28
- Church and State (comics) 2011-04-28
- Cerebus (comics) 2011-04-27
- High Society (comics) 2011-04-27
- Chester Brown's autobiographical comics 2011-04-26
- Chester Brown's Gospel adaptations 2011-04-26
- The Book of Genesis (comics) 2011-04-21
- Underwater (comics) 2011-04-19
- The Complete Crumb Comics 2011-04-19
- Congress of the Animals 2011-04-11
- Paying for It 2011-04-11
- The Little Man (comics) 2011-04-08
- Weathercraft 2011-04-04
- Sunpu 2006-06-12