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From: kaleb@fedora.x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: German Keyboard... I want!
Date: 15 Feb 95 10:50:29 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Message-ID: <kaleb.792845429@fedora.x.org>
References: <3hn4md$5@solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de> <1995Feb14.170337.4036@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <3hshis$gen@solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de>
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hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke) writes:
>>hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke) writes:
>>>Armed with 400k FAQ and 300MB Software I wanted to make my
>>>FreeBSD 2.0R to show an "Î" after typing "Î" ("oe"), but I
>>>coudn't manage it. I found german.iso.kbd and kbdcontrol for
>>>it, but kbdcontrol -v -d only produces an error (inappropiate
>>>io-device...)..
>Anyway, my foult: I tried to type the above-line from an xterm (root),
>but it failed with "inappropiate ioctl". Switching to text-mode and
>entering the line from console (root), everything works fine. Now I
>installed the line in rc.local...
You don't internationalize X programs by using system specific ioctl
calls. Get and use XFree86 3.1.1, which has an xterm that has been
partially internationalized to work in most european locales.
--
Kaleb KEITHLEY
X Consortium