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From: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] German Keyboard
Date: 09 Dec 1993 18:02:44 GMT
Organization: Komische Universitaet, Charlottenburg
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In-reply-to: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 06 Dec 93 14:39:07 GMT
In article <2dvg6e$b1e@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) writes:
>Ok, I tried to get a german keyboard so I changed what's been mentioned in the
>syscons-extra package. Now I have almost a real german keyboard but there's
>just one bug: Whatever termcap entry I use for this keyboard table I never
>got a german "umlaut" at the screen, which means no ä (ae or tex: "a) and
>different other "umlaut" characters. Also the emacs won't display them. So can
>anyone help me about this little problem ?
I can read iso-8859-1 Umlaute with emacs or more(1). I use for writing
a minor-mode in emacs.
But syscons destroyed the 8th Bit of each Byte. The Meta-key does not
work. M-d (adiaeresis ``ä'' or ``ae'') is a ``d'' :-{
Wolfram