How to write in pinyin certain characters...
Do you know how to get in Ubuntu the first (āēīōū) and third tone (ǎěǐǒǔ)?

Since my keyboard is Spanish, i do use the french âêîôû instead of the right third tone, and the Spanish äëïöü for the first one, but it would be nice to write them correctly.

Thank you!

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How to write in pinyin certain characters...
Do you know how to get in Ubuntu the first (āēīōū) and third tone (ǎěǐǒǔ)?

Since my keyboard is Spanish, i do use the french âêîôû instead of the right third tone, and the Spanish äëïöü for the first one, but it would be nice to write them correctly.

Thank you!

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Usually we don´t input the symbol of the tones
If you use the keyboard of souhu, you can download it from here：http://rj.baidu.com/soft/detail/13598.html?ald 
Then you can follow the picture of this link http://jingyan.baidu.com/article/380abd0a4b9c101d90192cc2.html

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I did it!

I'll answer myself so maybe i can help others in my situation.

So, if you use a Spanish keyboard configuration and want to get the graphic pinyin tones right, do the following:
a) for the first tone (āēīōū) press AltGr + Shift + * and then the vowel
b) for the third tone (ăĕĭŏŭ) press AltGr + Shift + ç and then the vowel
c) second (áéíóú) and fouth (àèìòù) don't pose any problems for us
d) for the second and forth tone on the letter ü, first press the " then ' or ` and finally the u

However I can't get yet the first and third ü tones. I'll go on with my research.

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Ups! You are absolutely righ Oozrz. I'll do that. Xièxie!

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We don't write pinyin on computers, so I can't help you. Maybe you should put this question on the English-part(I don't know how to say ,the part people ask questions in english).

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install Chinese language pack and don't torture yourself

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