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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Composing International Characters
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From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Date: 9 Nov 95 11:41:58 GMT
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jcnc@eppet.eppet.pt (Joao Neves Cabral) writes:

>I'm currently using FreeBSD 2.1.0 (Oct 10th snapshot) and I've just
>managed to create a keymap file for the Portuguese keyboard layout
>(the one I'm using).

>My problem now is how to write composed characters. I haven't found  
>anything related to it in the OS. For example, when I type "'" followed 
>by "a", I would like to get an "a" with an accent.

>Is this possible under FreeBSD ? If not, will it ever be ?

If you're using X you can do it now. The XFree86 3.1.[12] xterm does
compose, as does xedit. Emacs-19.30 (when it becomes available) will
also use X i18n support for compose.

Make sure you have your LANG environment variable set -- pt_PT.ISO8859-1
in your snap, pt_PT.ISO_8859-1 in later versions.

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Kaleb KEITHLEY